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Die Jahre der Coronapolitik haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Lockdowns und andere Maßnahmen waren eine massive Belastung. Senioren vereinsamten, Kinder wurden isoliert, Ungeimpfte diffamiert – die Liste an Menschenrechtsverletzungen ist lang. Damit diese Zeit nie vergessen wird, hat die Autorin die persönlichen Erlebnisse von Menschen dokumentiert, die in den Medien nicht vorkommen. Annette Creft beschreibt die gesellschaftliche Seite der Coronazeit den Hauptteil aber bilden Menschen, die sonst keine Stimme in der Öffentlichkeit haben.

The accompanying workbook to Practicing Liberation: essential skills, exercises, and journal prompts for social-change workers to protect boundaries, prevent burnout, and nourish organizational cultures of resilience and care.

These are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest A radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements—4 strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights...

As seen on TVO’s adaptation Unrigged A handbook of democratic solutions in troubled times, from the activist the media call a "wizard," a "mastermind," "the ultimate ideas guy," a "mad scientist," a "start-up genius." Our democracy is a trainwreck. Our elections feel hollow and our...

Eugene A. Woods, CEO of Advocate Health, one of the largest non-profit health systems in the nation, provides a riveting behind-the-scenes look at healthcare in the United States. By sharing his insights from three decades in healthcare administration, as well as his personal journey, listeners gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing healthcare systems and the impact on all of us. Woods sheds light on the inequities our communities face and presents actionable prescriptions to create a more equitable, just and accessible healthcare system.

Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion, she helped to establish one of the United States’ first abortion centers in Flushing, Queens, and later went on to found Choices, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities. Now, amidst the aftermath of the Dobbs Decision, Hoffman has carefully compiled her decades of analysis, research, and experience into a tour de force manifesto that sheds light on the catastrophic repercussions of overturning Roe.

Covid alerted the nation to the reality that K-12 schools were infested with ideologues bent on indoctrinating children. Then, three years after the beginning of the pandemic, the response to Hamas's genocidal assault on Israel made Americans aware that the same tumor had wholly sickened our country's colleges and universities. Now, conservatives—and increasingly, moderates and old-school liberals—want to know exactly how the radical left captured higher education.

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.

"Darkly humorous" is an understatement when it comes to this tale of addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and redemption. Jared Klickstein, the child of two heroin addicts who eventually became addicted himself, takes listeners on a raw and personal journey from his unsettling and secretive childhood in the suburbs to the slums of Skid Row. Through tales of violence, relapse, and deep inner struggle, Klickstein provides a harrowing account of his personal encounter with near-death.

The Politics of Gun Control Ninth Edition brings together the latest developments and research in gun politics, policy, law, history, and criminology.

A obra traduz um alerta fundamental sobre a infiltração do crime organizado nos tecidos político, econômico e social do país, a confluir numa perigosa tendência de indistinção entre o Estado, o mercado e o crime. Por meio de uma narrativa objetiva e contundente, o autor faz um diagnóstico das causas pelas quais corremos o risco do crime organizado se apoderar do Estado brasileiro e lança bases para as discussões de um Projeto Nacional de Segurança Pública, um tema central da nossa democracia.

Kambodscha, Vietnam, Sahara, Ruanda – vierzig Jahre lang war Flavio Del Ponte als Chirurg weltweit mit dem Leid des Krieges konfrontiert. Heute blickt er in den Rückspiegel und sieht sich selbst als jungen, hoffnungsvollen Arzt, der um die Welt reist und als Kriegschirurg endet. Fast bemerkt er nicht, dass er während dieser Zeit seinen Beruf und die Rollen, die ihm angeboten werden, wechselt: militärisch, politisch, als Diplomat im Stab des UN-Generalsekretärs und nicht zuletzt als humanitärer Helfer. Aber im Herzen blieb er immer ein Arzt mit der fixen Idee, den Leidenden zu helfen.

Long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned complexities of American gun politics. As he came to understand it, public health is a harder sell in a nation that fundamentally disagrees about what it means to be safe, healthy, or free.

Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. Within this context, Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics, and prison. Throughout, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy compromised by its racist origins and institutions.

Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in taxation are changing Canada. They challenge the view that any tax is a bad tax and provide broad directions for fairer and smarter approaches.

Mi propósito es errático, casi irresponsable: ir a verlas cada semana, munida de libros de relatos, papeles y lápices, para incitar en ellas su imaginación y sus propios cuentos. No sé cuánto tiempo me llevará esa tarea: puede ser un día, tal vez muchos meses, quizás hasta que el proyecto de refugio diurno deje de ser renovado por el Ministerio.

To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke Winslow reveals oligarchy's deep intellectual roots and alarming growth in America. The book provides conceptual tools the lack of which have prevented Americans from recognizing oligarchy at home. Winslow argues that generic labels like "billionaires" for a class of ultra-rich masks the pervasive structures that entrench their power.

Having a hard time figuring out your optimal Social Security claiming strategy? Navigating Social Security benefits can be a confusing process. Claiming at the wrong time can cost you and your heirs hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime. But it doesn't have to be intimidating. Industry insider Matt Feret helps simplify the process for you and makes it clear. With decades of experience in retirement and aging issues, Matt walks you through the Social Security maze, and gets you ready for the best time of your life...

Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic-and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.

Generationenkonflikte gab es schon immer. Doch der derzeit vorherrschende ist geprägt von einem erheblichen Machtgefälle, während gleichzeitig ein enormer gesellschaftlicher Wandel gestemmt werden muss, wenn wir die Klimakatastrophe abwenden und unsere Zukunft bewahren wollen. Barbara Streidl zeigt, welche Kraft wir freisetzen können, wenn die Generationen ihre Differenzen überwinden und gemeinsam an einem Strang ziehen. Es wird deutlich, dass wir einen neuen Generationenvertrag benötigen, wenn wir die enormen Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart meistern wollen.