Standing Up For Civil Liberties
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Standing Up To The Madness
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Author : Amy Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Books
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Standing Up To The Madness written by Amy Goodman and has been published by Hachette Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--but also offers advice on what you can do to help. Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement? The answer: They are everywhere. The award-winning sister-brother team of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman traveled the country to detail the ways in which grassroots activists have taken politics out of the hands of politicians. Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed. As the Bush administration has waged war abroad and at home, it has catalyzed a vast groundswell of political action. From African-American residents of deluged New Orleans who are fighting racism and City Hall to regain their homes; to four Connecticut librarians who refused to spy on their patrons, challenged the USA PATRIOT Act, and won; to a group of high school students who were barred from performing a play they wrote on the Iraq War based on letters from soldiers; to the first U.S. Army officer to publicly refuse orders to deploy to Iraq, charging that his duty as an officer is to refuse to fight in an illegal and immoral war, Standing Up to the Madness profiles citizens rising to extraordinary challenges. And, in the process, they are changing the way that politics is done, both now and in the future. In communities around the United States, courageous individuals have taken leaps of faith to stop the madness. They could only hope that if they led, others would follow. That is how movements are born. What begins as one, eventually becomes many. In that tradition, the authors have included the ways in which any individual can take action and effect change.
Engines Of Liberty
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Author : David Cole
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Engines Of Liberty written by David Cole and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Law categories.
From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook for anyone seeking to stand up for fundamental civil liberties and rights One of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016 In an age of executive overreach, what role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and defending liberty? Must we rely on the federal courts, and the Supreme Court above all, to protect our rights? In Engines of Liberty, the esteemed legal scholar David Cole argues that we all have a part to play in the grand civic dramas of our era -- and in a revised introduction and conclusion, he proposes specific tactics for fighting Donald Trump's policies. Examining the most successful rights movements of the last thirty years, Cole reveals how groups of ordinary Americans confronting long odds have managed, time and time again, to convince the courts to grant new rights and protect existing ones. Engines of Liberty is a fundamentally new explanation of how our Constitution works and the part citizens play in it.
Standing Up For Civil Liberties
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Author : Dror Yuravlivker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Standing Up For Civil Liberties written by Dror Yuravlivker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Diane Abbott MP and Senator Russell Feingold have championed civil liberties in the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively. This paper examines their leadership on the civil liberties issue, putting their interview responses in the context of the broader literature on leadership.
Standing Up For Your Rights
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Author : National Council for Civil Liberites (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Standing Up For Your Rights written by National Council for Civil Liberites (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Civil rights categories.
Civil Liberties
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Author : Tom Head
language : en
Publisher: Oneworld
Release Date : 2009-08
Civil Liberties written by Tom Head and has been published by Oneworld this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with History categories.
Presents a global history of civil liberties, discussing what they are and why they are important, along with advice on ways to defend civil liberties.
The Aclu Guide To Protest
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Author : ACLU
language : en
Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date : 2018
The Aclu Guide To Protest written by ACLU and has been published by Atria Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Political Science categories.
Freedom can't protect itself. Citizens need to stand up and take action. The ACLU Guide to Protest covers our bedrock freedoms and civil liberties and why they matter, how they’re under attack, and the power of mobilization and protest. Issues such as free speech, immigration, racial justice, religious liberty, reproductive freedom, women’s rights, LGTB rights, and privacy and technology are discussed in detail. The ACLU also explains the employment of various tactics and how they were successfuly used in specific campaigns. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a national organization at the forefront of what has come to be known as The Resistance. In the current political climate, the ACLU has taken a fierce stance to fight government abuse and to vigorously defend individual freedoms including speech and religion, a woman’s right to choose, the right to due process, citizens’ rights to privacy and much more. For the first time, the ACLU brings its vast political knowledge to Americans, providing them with everything they need to know to take a stance in defense of individual freedoms. The ACLU Guide to Protest educates readers on everything from fighting voter intimidation, understanding pertinent laws, discovering mobilization efforts, as well as creating effective messaging for signs and banners when you’re ready to march.
Where Do You Stand On Civil Liberties
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Author : American Civil Liberties Union
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 197?
Where Do You Stand On Civil Liberties written by American Civil Liberties Union and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 197? with Civil rights categories.
Fight Of The Century
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Author : Viet Thanh Nguyen
language : en
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Fight Of The Century written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and has been published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Literary Collections categories.
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.
The Future Of Foreign Intelligence
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Author : Laura K. Donohue
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-23
The Future Of Foreign Intelligence written by Laura K. Donohue and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Law categories.
Since the Revolutionary War, America's military and political leaders have recognized that U.S. national security depends upon the collection of intelligence. Absent information about foreign threats, the thinking went, the country and its citizens stood in great peril. To address this, the Courts and Congress have historically given the President broad leeway to obtain foreign intelligence. But in order to find information about an individual in the United States, the executive branch had to demonstrate that the person was an agent of a foreign power. Today, that barrier no longer exists. The intelligence community now collects massive amounts of data and then looks for potential threats to the United States. As renowned national security law scholar Laura K. Donohue explains in The Future of Foreign Intelligence, global communications systems and digital technologies have changed our lives in countless ways. But they have also contributed to a worrying transformation. Together with statutory alterations instituted in the wake of 9/11, and secret legal interpretations that have only recently become public, new and emerging technologies have radically expanded the amount and type of information that the government collects about U.S. citizens. Traditionally, for national security, the Courts have allowed weaker Fourth Amendment standards for search and seizure than those that mark criminal law. Information that is being collected for foreign intelligence purposes, though, is now being used for criminal prosecution. The expansion in the government's acquisition of private information, and the convergence between national security and criminal law threaten individual liberty. Donohue traces the evolution of U.S. foreign intelligence law and pairs it with the progress of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. She argues that the bulk collection programs instituted by the National Security Agency amount to a general warrant, the prevention of which was the reason the Founders introduced the Fourth Amendment. The expansion of foreign intelligence surveillanceleant momentum by advances in technology, the Global War on Terror, and the emphasis on securing the homelandnow threatens to consume protections essential to privacy, which is a necessary component of a healthy democracy. Donohue offers a road map for reining in the national security state's expansive reach, arguing for a judicial re-evaluation of third party doctrine and statutory reform that will force the executive branch to take privacy seriously, even as Congress provides for the collection of intelligence central to U.S. national security. Alarming and penetrating, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of foreign intelligence and privacy in the United States.
Government Is Good
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Author : Douglas J. Amy
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Government Is Good written by Douglas J. Amy and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Democracy categories.
Why a book defending government? Because for decades, right-wing forces in this country have engaged in a relentless and irresponsible campaign of vicious government bashing. Conservatives and libertarians have demonized government, attacked basic safety net programs like Medicare, and undermined vital regulations that protect consumers, investors, workers, and the environment. This book takes on this anti-government movement and shows that most of its criticisms of this institution are highly exaggerated, misleading, or just plain wrong. In reality, American government - despite its flaws - plays a valuable and indispensable role in promoting the public good. Most government programs are working well and are actually improving the lives of Americans in innumerable ways. Democratic government is a vital tool for making our world a better place; and if we want an America that is prosperous, healthy, secure, well-educated, just, compassionate, and unpolluted, we need a strong, active, and well-funded public sector. Part I: Why Government is Good. The section of the book describes how government acts as a force for good in society. One chapter chronicles a day in the life of an average middle-class American and identifies the myriad ways that government programs improve our lives. Other chapters describe the forgotten achievements of government; how government is the only way to effectively promote public values like justice and equality; and how a free market economy would be impossible without the elaborate legal and regulatory infrastructure provided by government. Part II: The War on Government. This section of the book chronicles the unrelenting assault on government being waged by conservative forces in this country. Chapters describe how cuts in social programs and rollbacks of regulations have harmed the health, safety, and welfare of millions of Americans and how these assaults have taken place on many fronts - in Congress, the administrative branch, and the federal courts, as well as on the state and local level. Also addressed: how the right's radical anti-government agenda is out of touch with the views and priorities of most Americans, and what the real truth is about government deficits. Part III: How to Revitalize Democracy and Government. There are, in fact, some problems with American government, and we need to address these if we are to restore Americans' faith in this institution. One of the main problems with our government is that it is not accountable and responsive enough to the public. Moneyed special interests too often win out over the public interest. Chapters in this section describe this problem and how we can fix it. There are several reforms - including public financing of elections - that could help our government live up to its democratic ideals. The final chapter discusses strategies for building a pro-government coalition in this country.