Solidarity Stories

Author : Harvey Schwartz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295997926

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Solidarity Stories by Harvey Schwartz Pdf

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, born out of the 1934 West Coast maritime and San Francisco general strikes under the charismatic leadership of Harry Bridges, has been known from the start for its strong commitment to democracy, solidarity, and social justice. In this collection of firsthand narratives, union leaders and rank-and-file workers - from the docks of Pacific Coast ports to the fields of Hawaii to bookstores in Portland, Oregon - talk about their lives at work, on the picket line, and in the union. Workers recall the back-breaking, humiliating conditions on the waterfront before they organized, the tense days of the 1934 strike, the challenges posed by mechanization, the struggle against racism and sexism on the job, and their activism in other social and political causes. Their stories testify to the union's impact on the lives of its members and also to its role in larger events, ranging from civil rights battles at home to the fights against fascism and apartheid abroad. Solidarity Stories is a unique contribution to the literature on unions. There is a power and immediacy in the voices of workers that is brilliantly expressed here. Taken together, these voices provide a portrait of a militant, corruption-free, democratic union that can be a model and an inspiration for what a resurgent American labor movement might look like. The book will appeal to students and scholars of labor history, social and economic history, and social change, as well as trade unionists and anyone interested in labor politics and history.

Author : Hywel Francis
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784616687

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Stories of Solidarity by Hywel Francis Pdf

A collection of writings and speeches by historian, political activist and former MP Hywel Francis. He celebrates the struggles of the working class of the South Wales Valleys and asks about the continuing relevance of the miners' strikes and the NHS. An essential and inspiring book for all interested in recent Welsh social and general history.

Author : Jeffry Odell Korgen
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Church and social problems
ISBN : 9781608330492

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Solidarity will transform the World by Jeffry Odell Korgen Pdf

Author : Helen Zia
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429980852

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Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia Pdf

The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans. Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in the 1950s when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. Written for both Asian Americans -- the fastest-growing population in the United States -- and non-Asians, Asian American Dreams argues that America can no longer afford to ignore these emergent, vital, and singular American people.

Author : Shana Penn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472031961

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Solidarity's Secret by Shana Penn Pdf

The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime

Author : Ali Rogin
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781635767100

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Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss by Ali Rogin Pdf

Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, and other breast cancer survivors and “previvors” tell their powerful, inspiring stories in this collection. Drawing from first-hand interviews of successful, high-profile women from myriad industries and perspectives, award-winning journalist Ali Rogin brings together an all-star support and recovery team to inspire anyone confronting a cancer diagnosis, along with their loved ones. Learn how preeminent actresses, musicians, politicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs faced a formidable disease and put it in its place. In their own words, the women of Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss inform and encourage other women by sharing their experiences and advice. Learn how they told loved ones about their diagnoses, navigated treatment options, and managed the work/life/cancer balance. Rogin, too, faced great uncertainty when she tested positively for the BRCA1 genetic mutation at age twenty. She found answers in the vibrant community of breast cancer survivors and “previvors” who also stared down the odds. With her brave decision to undergo a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy before even graduating college, Rogin joined this diverse sisterhood of women confronting breast cancer in its many forms with dignity, strength, and humor.

Author : Marina Sitrin,Rebecca Solnit,Colectiva Sembrar
Publisher : Vagabonds
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN : 0745343163

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Pandemic Solidarity by Marina Sitrin,Rebecca Solnit,Colectiva Sembrar Pdf

Collects first-hand experiences from around the world of people creating their own networks of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of Covid-19.

Author : Mythri Jegathesan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0295745657

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Tea and Solidarity by Mythri Jegathesan Pdf

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry's economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family members now migrate from plucking tea to performing domestic work in the capital city of Colombo or farther afield in the Middle East. Using feminist ethnographic methods in research that spans the transitional time between 2008 and 2017, Mythri Jegathesan presents the lived experience of these women and men working in agricultural, migrant, and intimate labor sectors. In Tea and Solidarity, Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession, drawing attention to the political significance of gender as a key feature in investment and place making in Sri Lanka specifically, and South Asia more broadly. This vivid and engaging ethnography sheds light on an otherwise marginalized and often invisible minority whose labor and collective heritage of dispossession as ?coolies? in colonial Ceylon are central to Sri Lanka's global recognition, economic growth, and history as a postcolonial nation.

Author : John Eversley,Sinéad Gormally,Avila Kilmurray
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447359364

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Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development by John Eversley,Sinéad Gormally,Avila Kilmurray Pdf

How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc and Global South, on communities addressing conflict in divided and contested societies. The book draws on a range of critical perspectives and practitioner analyses. The diverse case studies demonstrate the considerable knowledge, skills, commitment, courage and relationships within local communities that a critical community development approach can support and encourage. Concluding with activists’ perspectives on working with the challenges of violence, the book offers insights for both an understanding of the root causes of conflict and for bottom-up peacebuilding.

Author : Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773632636

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Living in Indigenous Sovereignty by Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara Pdf

In the last decade, the relationship between settler Canadians and Indigenous Peoples has been highlighted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the Idle No More movement, the Wet’suwet’en struggle against pipeline development and other Indigenous-led struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and decolonization. Increasing numbers of Canadians are beginning to recognize how settler colonialism continues to shape relationships on these lands. With this recognition comes the question many settler Canadians are now asking, what can I do? Living in Indigenous Sovereignty lifts up the wisdom of Indigenous scholars, activists and knowledge keepers who speak pointedly to what they are asking of non-Indigenous people. It also shares the experiences of thirteen white settler Canadians who are deeply engaged in solidarity work with Indigenous Peoples. Together, these stories offer inspiration and guidance for settler Canadians who wish to live honourably in relationship with Indigenous Peoples, laws and lands. If Canadians truly want to achieve this goal, Carlson and Rowe argue, they will pursue a reorientation of their lives toward “living in Indigenous sovereignty” — living in an awareness that these are Indigenous lands, containing relationships, laws, protocols, stories, obligations and opportunities that have been understood and practised by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Collectively, these stories will help settler Canadians understand what transformations we must undertake if we are to fundamentally shift our current relations and find a new way forward, together. Visit for more details: https://www.storiesofdecolonization.org Watch the book launch video here:

Author : Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292719095

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Dividing the Isthmus by Ana Patricia Rodríguez Pdf

In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways. This juncture also set the conditions for the creation of the Transisthmus—a material, cultural, and symbolic site of vast intersections of people, products, and narratives. Taking 1899 as her point of departure, Ana Patricia Rodríguez offers a comprehensive, comparative, and meticulously researched book covering more than one hundred years, between 1899 and 2007, of modern cultural and literary production and modern empire-building in Central America. She examines the grand narratives of (anti)imperialism, revolution, subalternity, globalization, impunity, transnational migration, and diaspora, as well as other discursive, historical, and material configurations of the region beyond its geophysical and political confines. Focusing in particular on how the material productions and symbolic tropes of cacao, coffee, indigo, bananas, canals, waste, and transmigrant labor have shaped the transisthmian cultural and literary imaginaries, Rodríguez develops new methodological approaches for studying cultural production in Central America and its diasporas. Monumental in scope and relentlessly impassioned, this work offers new critical readings of Central American narratives and contributes to the growing field of Central American studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124102257

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The Point Is-- Grassroots Organizing Works by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosi Braidotti,Patrick Hanafin,Bolette Blaagaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415623810

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After Cosmopolitanism by Rosi Braidotti,Patrick Hanafin,Bolette Blaagaard Pdf

At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures across the humanities and social sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this question as its central challenge. Its core argument is the idea that our globalised condition forms the heart of contemporary cosmopolitan claims, which do not refer to a transcendental ideal, but are rather immanent to the material conditions of global interdependence. But to what extent do emerging definitions of cosmopolitanism contribute to new representative democratic models of governance? The present volume argues that a radical transformation of cosmopolitanism is already ongoing and that more effort is needed to take stock of transformations which are both necessary and possible. To this end, After Cosmopolitanism calls for an understanding of cosmopolitanism that is more attentive to the material reality of our social and political situation and less focused on linguistic analyses of its metaphorical implications. It is the call for a cosmopolitanism that is also a cosmopolitics.

Author : Allan Bérubé
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807834794

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My Desire for History by Allan Bérubé Pdf

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. The book provides a retrospective on Berube's life and work while it documents the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together, the essays attest to the power of history to mobilize individuals and communities to create social change.

Author : Joseph H. Hellerman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498284332

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Why We Need the Church to Become More Like Jesus by Joseph H. Hellerman Pdf

Many of us long to experience the fullness of God and his purpose for our lives. Not a whole lot of us ever do. The reason is that we have departed in some significant ways from the biblical view of Christian life and growth. The New Testament highlights the communal, missional, and eschatological aspects of our walk with God. We grow in our faith as individual Christians to the degree that we are (a) deeply rooted relationally in a local church community that is (b) passionately playing its part in God's grand story of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration, and (c) intently anticipating the summing of all things in Christ when Jesus returns. In recent decades, American evangelicals have traded away community, outreach, and the Bible's teaching about eternity future for the pursuit of individual religious experience in the here-and-now. Why We Need the Church to Become More Like Jesus traces this departure from biblical Christianity through recent decades of popular evangelical trends and reminds us that faith centered on community, mission, and the story line of Scripture remains the key to the spiritual formation of the individual Christian.