At Trickle Creek in northern Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig thought hed buffered his tiny religious community from civilization, but in 1990 civilization came calling.
How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human historyNovel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in Chinas vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories.
The state of public discourse in America is dismal, reflecting an extreme us-versus-them tribalism where "e;me and my folks"e; have the full truth about the contentious issue at hand and "e;those other folks"e; are devoid of any truth and can even be demonized as evil.
The Book that Transformed AmericaResistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an argument for disobedience to an unjust state by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 and continues to transform American discourse even today.
In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance.
This multifaceted reference work surveys the history, development, leadership, and priorities of Black Lives Matter (BLM), including the group's efforts to raise public awareness of police violence in communities of color.
An Extraordinary ReadWhen Alec Baldwin published his 2008 book, A Promise to Ourselves, his goal ostensibly was to reform our nation s broken divorce system.
One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the YearNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by ELLE,Buzzfeed,Esquire,Bitch Media, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Parade andBookRiotOne of the smartest young writers of her generation.
In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women.
After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "e;validated"e; for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU.
This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order, by arguing that the police project, in order to fabricate and defend capitalist order,must patrol an imaginary line between society and nature, it must transform nature into inert matter made available for accumulation.
In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars.
A Vietnamese Refugee, a Viral Video, and the United Airlines Scandal That Started It All"e;His refusal to give up his seat on a United Airlines flight, and the ensuing assault he suffered, is emblematic of how far we, the people, still have to travel to create a world with liberty and justice for all.
