to build a radical sociology program at a major university took place in the Department of Sociology at Washington University in the late 1960s. For a brief period, it appeared that a unique program had been created, a department comprising a broad range of radical scholars. However, by 1972...
Inmy research, I’ve explored what motivates radical environmental activists to engage in what’s called direct action. Coined by US anarcho-feministVoltairine de Cleyre, direct action was popularised during Mahatma Gandhi’s opposition to British colonial rule in India. Its use proliferated in c...
By the mid-1960s, inspired by Malcolm X and the Black Power movement, activists established legal services to promote the civil rights of Black people ... K Bradley - 《Historische Anthropologie》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 Brother Malcolm, Dr. King, and Black Power – A Close and Complementar...
This letter is in response to your article "Politicians, Pundits, and Activists Are Having a Culture War. The Rest of Us Are Nuanced or Ambivalent and Looking for New Directions" (March 2007). I found the information to be very interesting, and I agree wholeheartedly with the position of ...
TheMcLibel trialwas a huge issue in the late eighties and 1990s. London Greenpeace activists being sued by an evil multinational corporation generated a lot of media attention and many solidarity actions, including the widespread dissemination of the“What is wrong with McDonalds” leafletthat had tr...
During the late 1950s and into the 1960s, right-wing media activists pivoted toward direct political action to rupture the liberal consensus and the bipartisanship of postwar America. The book's third section, 'Elections', illustrates how media leaders formed political action groups and endorsed ...
Activists, and citi-zens engaged in social resistance more gen-erally, also use mapping as an efficient tool to report abuses of power, speculation, too much control from powerful states, corporations, and other large institutions.ONE ROOM, TWO AMBIENCESMapping is a “perverse” discipline in ...
of his Presidency, traditional marriage had been devalued; the Courts had been packed with Far Leftists; the highest ranks of the military, the FBI and CIA had been purged of patriots and seeded with perverts; and federal government institutions had been fully politicized with radical activists....
environmental crusaders keep shouting facts and presenting data and talking about the need to change as if we had the luxury of waiting for that to happen. At most maybe a few million people on this planet really know the score. Do these young environmental activists actually believe they are...
James, in his second American sojourn in the late 1960s. During this second sojourn, James worked with a group of former SNCC activists in Washington DC, who gathered around the Centre for Black Education. This work culminated in the 1974 Sixth Pan-African Congress held in Tanzania. The ...