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Jesse Jackson is a modern day highway robber, says veteran investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman, who uses cries of racism to steal from individuals, corporations, and government, to give to himself. Until now, however, no one has been brave enough to say it and diligent enough to prove it. But Ken Timmerman has cracked Jackson's machine, found Jackson cronies willing to break ranks, and uncovered a sordid tale of greed, ambition, and corruption...
2) Making the movement: how activists fought for civil rights with buttons, flyers, pins, and posters
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From Reconstruction through Jim Crow, through the protest era of the 1960s and '70s, to current-day resistance and activism such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the material culture of the Civil Rights Movement has been integral to its goals and tactics. During decades of sit-ins, marches, legal challenges, political campaigns, boycotts, and demonstrations, objects such as buttons, flyers, pins, and posters have been key in the fight against racism,...
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First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come...
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"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
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A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
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"This title will inform readers about the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The title will discuss those involved, such as John F. Kennedy--who spoke about civil rights in 1963--as well as Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and more. Vivid details, well-chosen photographs, and primary sources bring this story and this case to life."--Publisher's website....
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La investigación marca bien los antecedentes del tema y señala líneas importantes y ciertas, tanto para las etapas subsiguientes de futuros proyectos sobre el delito de omisión en Colombia, como para posteriores estudios sobre los mismos en el país. El objeto se ubica en el campo de la búsqueda de las fuentes doctrinales y teóricas del Derecho, que se requieren para la más ilustrada interpretación y aplicación de las normas legales en manos...
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A careful and thorough examination of the 2nd Amendment suggest that it is very different from what many people think. In fact, rather than giving UA citizens a free choice of all and any Gun ther may like, the 2nd Amendment can be used to prevent the most dangerous people from having easy access to guns.
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The Basics of Freedom presents simple explanations of the fundamental principles that provide the foundational structure for the United States government. Breaking down each clause and paragraph, Dr. Bey explicates the natural rights that each citizen has to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and highlights the ideals pertaining to the responsibilities of the government to its citizens and the civic duties of the citizens to the government....
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Discrimination is harmful behavior that perpetuates inequality between individuals and consists of giving undeserved treatment to people or groups. The reason may be diverse. It corresponds to the creation of a hostile and derogatory environment, as well as forcing or encouraging others to carry out discriminatory acts. Legally, discrimination occurs when there is conduct that demonstrates exclusion or restriction, due to some characteristic of the...
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Los perfiladores policiales de migrantes son piezas clave para descubrir a personas que intentan salir ilegalmente de un país con documentos falsos o adulterados, sacar objetos, materiales y sustancias prohibidas, entre otros.Construyen identidades a partir de la experiencia adquirida en el trabajo de inteligencia que desarrollan que incluye entrevistas a los migrantes recopilando información que permite saber los motivos de su desplazamiento hacia...
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Pseudo religious ideas are used to pass laws that prohibit its option. But abortion is essential to ensure that children will be born into families that want them. At lest as important is the effect on overpopulation and its result--climate change.Few realize that God told Moses that abortion is required in at least one situation--and tells the priests how to do it! But there is much more that pro-choise people should know.
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This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths of two unarmed suspects; the chokehold death of Eric Harris in Staten Island; the death of Michael Harris in Ferguson, Missouri, and police and civic...
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La prescripción y la caducidad son instituciones jurídicas de larga data.
La primera más vieja, la otra más joven. Su fuente está en el decurso del tiempo y la inacción de un derecho por su titular. Ambas generan efectos en las relaciones jurídicas que, como sabemos, se han diversificado y dimensionado en razón de variados factores: económicos, sociales y ni qué decir de la globalización.
Este libro desarrolla, como punto de partida,...
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The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by...
19) Juicio a la exclusión: El impacto de los tribunales sobre los derechos sociales en el Sur Global
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De un tiempo a esta parte, los sistemas jurídicos de América Latina han experimentado enormes transformaciones, como la creación de nuevas prácticas de litigio orientadas al cambio social y la reforma estructural. Ante estas experiencias, impensables poco tiempo atrás en los entornos jurídicos formalistas típicos de la región, los tribunales comienzan a ofrecer respuestas originales sobre las que todavía hay mucho que investigar y otro tanto...
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"La violencia está siendo el resultado de creer diferente al otro. Los abusos sobre las minorías son comunes y constantes. La dignidad humana está siendo pisoteada por el mismo ser humano que cree tener derechos superiores sobre quien no comulga con sus ideas y principios religiosos. Sin el mínimo respeto y tolerancia hacia los demás, se defiende erróneamente una tradición o una costumbre religiosa pasando por encima de la vida de otro ser...
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