Showing results for "The Nineties" in Politics & Activism

Who is Peter Dutton, and what happened to the Liberal Party? In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.

This is the story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow—a teenage girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has lasted decades. In 2015 Thurlow sparked a rallying cry for activists when she proclaimed at the United Nations, "Humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist."

Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he’s learned. In the early sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as “misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his documentary play, In White America, which reread the history of racist oppression in this country, toured the country—most notably during Freedom Summer—and became an international hit.

Le ombre russe di Salvini: Salvini sotto assedio: "Se apro la crisi, i grillini fanno un governo coi dem", di Tommaso Ciriaco; La Costituzione calpestata, di Claudio Tito; Rubli e manovra, Conte contro Salvini: "Gioca a fare il premier", di Goffredo De Marchis; Caso Savoini, la paura di Salvini leader braccato, di Ezio Mauro; Mascetti "Conosco Savoini ma col Metropol non c'entro", di Carlo Bonini e Fabio Tonacci; "Non devo spiegare niente". Salvini gela alleati e Parlamento, di Annalisa Cuzzocrea.