Book Description
Shows how local government is sometimes the biggest violator of individual rights.
Author : Clint Bolick
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781882577019
Shows how local government is sometimes the biggest violator of individual rights.
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
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Shows how local government is sometimes the biggest violator of individual rights.
Author : William Perry Pendley
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780895264824
War on the West reveals, for the first time, the startling and shocking details behind one of the nation's top news stories: the brewing Western revolt against the federal government. The federal government, following the lead of environmental extremists, is increasingly using strong-arm tactics against Western land-owners and resource providers. Government agents have jailed ranchers for fencing their own land, placed the welfare of wildlife above the lives of humans, used federal laws and government lawyers to intimidate property owners into submission, and condemned much of the West to the devastation of a "nature's way" approach to land management. War on the West lays out, issue by issue, the attack now underway on timber, mining, ranching, oil and gas exploration, tourism, and even the West's most important resource: water. With the dramatic stories of the brave men and women who have banded together in a grassroots movement to fight back, Pendley shows how the West's most threatened species - working men and women and their communities - are making a dramatic comeback.
Author : Kathleen Mapes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0252091809
In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, industrialists, Eastern European and Mexican immigrants, child laborers, rural reformers, Washington politicos, and colonial interests. Engagingly written, Sweet Tyranny demonstrates that capitalism was not solely a force from above but was influenced by the people below who defended their interests in an ever-expanding imperialist market.
Author : Gene Sharp
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2021-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780648531517
Fighting Tyranny combines two of Gene Sharp's books in a single pocket-sized volume - From Dictatorship to Democracy and The Anti-Coup. At a time when governments around the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian and aggressive towards their citizens, this book offers ideas and nonviolent methods of action to successfully defend or establish democratic systems. From Dictatorship to Democracy - A conceptual Framework for Liberation is a practical exploration of the techniques of nonviolent struggle against totalitarian regimes. This book has been used successfully by activists from all sides of the political spectrum, by grassroots activists and state-backed colour revolutionaries alike, to overthrow governments and effect political change. The Anti-Coup - co-authored with Bruce Jenkins - explores the possibilities of nonviolent defence against coups d'état. Coups may happen to a functioning democracy, or in the power vacuum that occurs after a government has been ousted. The Anti-Coup describes methods to block coups and putsch attempts which can be used by citizens and governments.
Author : Jordan Flaherty
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1849352674
Missionaries of the left, saviors are people of privilege who believe they have all the answers. They want to help, but don’t want to listen; they lead but never follow. From post-Katrina New Orleans, to anti-sex-traficking work, to do-gooder journalists, Flaherty’s book reveals saviors’ misdeeds but also shows how activists can build new, stronger movements.
Author : Barry Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781941069226
- UNCHECKED GROWTH IN PRESIDENTIAL POWER - DISREGARD OF CONSTITUTIONAL GUIDELINES - DECEPTION BY EXECUTIVE - DECREASE OF AMERICAN POWER AND PRESTIGE - INCREASE IN SIZE AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES - USE OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO WEAKEN OPPOSITION - LOSS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CHOICES - GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF ECONOMY - MOVE TOWARD A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM - CONSTANT CLASS WARFARE
Author : Becky Bond
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1603587284
Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make seventy-five million calls, launch eight million text messages, and hold more than one-hundred thousand public meetings—in an effort to put Bernie Sanders’s insurgent campaign over the top. Bond and Exley, digital iconoclasts who have been reshaping the way politics is practiced in America for two decades, have identified twenty-two rules of “Big Organizing” that can be used to drive social change movements of any kind. And they tell the inside story of one of the most amazing grassroots political campaigns ever run. Fast-paced, provocative, and profound, Rules for Revolutionaries stands as a liberating challenge to the low expectations and small thinking that dominates too many advocacy, non-profit, and campaigning organizations—and points the way forward to a future where political revolution is truly possible.
Author : George B.N. Ayittey
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230341623
The recent turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East disproves the idea that dictatorships are acceptable to the people of these nations. From the uprising in Tunisia to the overthrow of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and rebellion across the region, the tide is turning against oppressive regimes. In this timely and urgent narrative, White House advisor on Africa George Ayittey takes a hard look at the fight against dictatorships around the world, from Eastern Europe in the twentieth century to the present turmoil in the Middle East. He describes the historic circumstances that led to the rise of brutal dictators and explains how, despite the best intentions and billions of dollars in aid, Western governments have been complicit in helping dictators consolidate power. He not only shows how the popular uprisings underway can best bring about democracy, but warns how democratic movements can inadvertently pave the way for more dictators. Ayittey examines strategies that have worked in the struggle to establish democracy through revolution, and suggests that by harnessing the power of democratic institutions and grassroots efforts, Africans can bring stability and security to the continent.
Author : Clint Bolick
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817945539
In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"—and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.