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"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez...
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"In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-- from the Black Freedom Movement to the...
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"A chilling overview of the current threat from domestic terrorism by a former Department of Homeland Security analyst America is a land in which extremism no longer belongs to the country's shadowy fringes, but comfortably exists in the national mainstream. That is the alarming conclusion by intelligence analyst Daryl Johnson, an expert on domestic extremism with more than twenty-five years of experience tracking radicalized groups for the U.S Government....
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For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively-to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola-she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common.
Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how...
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"Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime"--
"On September 26, 2014, police in Iguala, Mexico attacked five busloads of students and a soccer team, killing six people and abducting forty-three students--now known as the Iguala 43--who have not been seen since. In a coordinated cover-up of the government's role in the massacre and forced...
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This provocative thesis calls violence the driving force not just of war, but of politics and even social stability.
Though violence is commonly deplored, political scientist Ginsberg argues that in many ways it is indispensable, unavoidable, and valuable.
Ginsberg sees violence manifested in society in many ways. "Law-preserving violence" (using Walter Benjamin's phrase) is the chief means by which society preserves social order. Behind the security...
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Este libro fue publicado en 1996 y es un clásico de los estudios latinoamericanos El autor hace un análisis de las posturas modernas y posmodernas frente a temas que atraviesan el continente, como la identidad, la herencia colonial y la cultura popular Además hace un recuento de los primeros pensadores que, desde México, aportaron al campo en la primera mitad del siglo XX La segunda edición, publicada por la Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana...
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Analiza el papel de la comunidad y la cooperación internacional en los procesos de construcción de paz en Colombia. El texto busca enriquecer la discusión y alimentar el estado actual del debate con el fin de facilitar la identificación de capacidades y potencialidades de actores e instituciones internacionales, a pesar de sus condicionantes políticos, económicos y sociales. Asimismo, los autores intentan establecer las dinámicas que la comunidad...
10) The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
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"Matthew Horace was a law enforcement officer at the federal and local levels for twenty-eight years, working in nearly every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service, when Horace found himself with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews...
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Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists -- and the crucial news they report -- are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian...
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"From an award-winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported expose of the history and present crisis of anti-Semitism in France--and its dire consequences for the rest of Europe. Hate explores the alarming history and present predicament of anti-Semitism in France. By examining the issue at local, international, and personal levels--interviewing everyday French men and women as well as powerful leaders such as National Front president Marine...
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Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes...
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Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.
Since the late 1990s, the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region's premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Medea Benjamin, Blase Bonpane, Kathy...
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Este libro se pregunta por qué no ha sido posible la justicia en los países latinoamericanos, que afrontan nuevas olas de amnesia, impunidad, represión y violencia sin que las heridas del pasado hayan sido reparadas aún. Los capítulos exploran cuales han sido las secuelas de las apuestas programáticas de justicia transicional, mas allá de los límites del derecho y la institucionalidad, para reconocer los cambios producidos en los lenguajes,...
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Active Shooter tragic situations cannot be, predicted, so preparation is critical. Waiting ensures one thing, you won't be, prepared should an incident occur. That is why James Cameron has developed a unique program called P.A.C.E. -Prepare, Act, Care, Evacuate.
James's approach is to decrease vulnerability and increase survivability, with his comprehensive P.AC.E. program.
P.A.C.E. was developed based on James's personal experiences and lessons learned...
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Este libro reúne escritos que abarcan cerca de treinta años de la política colombiana, periodo durante el cual el autor analiza temas como la construcción histórica del Estado nacional y sus crisis, la violencia, la Constitución de 1991, el sistema político y los partidos, la cultura política, la participación, el conflicto, la paz, la democracia como construcción histórica, entre otros.
A la vez que recorre la historia política reciente...
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Análisis de los testimonios sobre la violencia política en el Perú que permiten una reflexión crítica sobre nuestra historia reciente y sus complejos vínculos con la situación actual.
Este libro es una incursión en el archivo de los testimonios sobre la violencia política ocurrida en el Perú entre los años 1980 y 2000, material fundamental y poco estudiado hasta la fecha. El archivo está constituido principalmente por los casi 17 000...
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Aunque toda utopía como la paz se reconoce compleja y difícil, este libro presenta una visión esperanzadora sobre la que habrán de profundizarse las acciones necesarias unas y complementaria otras, refrendadas tanto por instituciones nacionales como internacionales, para fortalecer y ratificar el proceso iniciado con la firma del Acuerdo en noviembre del 2016.
Los trabajos elaborados por los investigadores que participan en la presente publicación...
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