Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Saboteurs
Weibo Ludwig`s War against Big Oil
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2002 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime
“A grisly catalogue of the effects of hydrogen sulphide and flaring . . . Nikiforuk provides an eloquent and persuasive voice for all downwinders.”...
Let Freedom Ring
A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section...
Contested Words
Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In modern liberal democracies, rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial. For some, such judicial intervention has trivialized and impoverished democratic politics. For others judges have contributed to a dynamic and healthy dialogue between...
Legal Minds
Detecting Rogue Police Officers and Other Important Law Enforcement Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Have you wondered about the following?
? How do I detect bad police officers?
? What signs do I look for?
? Where do I report bad police officers?
? What do you say when you hear you're under arrest?
? What do I say to an officer attempting to violate my rights?
?...
In Search of Federal Enforcement
The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870–1965
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans’ voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. This book satiates the reader’s harboring curiosity as to why the national government was culpably negligent in...
Intellectual Privacy
Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this...
The Dirty Dozen
How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Alexander Hamilton wrote that “the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution.” If only that were true. The Founding Fathers wanted the judicial branch to serve as a check on the power of the legislative and executive,...
Corporations Are Not People
Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that the rights of things—money and corporations—matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the...
by The National Advisory Commission on Civil The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States. Hailed by Martin Luther King Jr. as a "physician's warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life," this historic study was produced by a presidential commission established by...
The Third Force
The Rise of Transnational Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
From the landmines campaign to the Seattle protests against the WTO to the World Commission on Dams, transnational networks of civil society groups are seizing an ever-greater voice in how governments run countries and how corporations do business. This volume brings together a multinational group...
by James Heartfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
At the start of the 1980s no employer had heard of an "equal opportunities policy" - by the end three-quarters of all those in work were covered by one. This is the story of the "equal opportunities revolution" at work. It explains why bosses took equal opportunities on board just...
Understanding Eritrea
Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not survive - their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
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Uncle Tom's Cabin + The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded)
The anti-slavery classic which laid ground for the abolitionist cause and Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin + The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded)” contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book was subtitled...