Nora barrows friedman biography of martin

In an important chapter titled "Intersecting Struggles and Common Causes," Barrows-Friedman shows how SJP organizers have teamed up with immigrant rights activists in Arizona, LGBT activists to protest Israeli "pinkwashing," and anti-racist activists radicalized by protests against police shootings and the Trayvon Martin killing. Her book shows the seedlings of what became the Ferguson to Gaza protests after Mike Brown's killing in the summer of This brand of activism culminated in the important December, , divestment vote by United Auto Workers Local , representing more than 10, University of California graduate student employees.

Barrows-Friedman's book is both a living chronicle and a handbook of one of the most explosive civil rights movements of our times. Since its publication just a few short months ago, new divestment resolutions have passed at college campuses in London, Ontario, Canada and across the U. As I write this review, student activists at Loyola University in Chicago are celebrating passage of their own divestment resolution.

SJP and Palestinian solidarity activists everywhere should buy and read this book, then write the next chapter for themselves.

Nora barrows friedman biography of martin

To those in power, our knowledge of the history of class struggle is dangerous. Alex Vitale's The End of Policing provides the arguments and facts to back up radical alternatives to the criminal justice system. The feminist novelist embraced the fantastic to tell stories that compelled readers to rethink their assumptions about society.

A former ski coach and radio personality living in rural Vermont is the unlikely hero of climate activist Bill McKibben's novel. SW contributors tell what they saw and heard on a trip to bring support and solidarity for the historic resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Every week--sometimes every day--brings a new outrage of the Trump era, but we can respond by building a left united behind solidarity and struggle.

Expect Trump to lead a charge to abandon climate change accords, drop enforcement of environmental regulations and ramp up energy production. JWE, which has a c3 letter from the US Internal Revenue Service, is dedicated to providing educational resources and experiences that inform and expand the public discourse in North America on issues of vital international concern.

Its current focus is on issues of peace and justice, with particular attention to the Middle East. With our partner organizations from around North America, we organize a range of public programs and discussions that are free and open to the public, involving a range of experts. They are building this website into a major multimedia resource for informing and educating the public on these issues.

JWE also has an active presence on the social-media platforms Facebook and Twitter. You can read a description of our major program areas here , and our end-of-year report here. Nora has been regularly reporting from Palestine since Helena Cobban is a writer on, and analyst of, international affairs. For two decades she contributed regular columns on global affairs to, respectively, the Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat London.

Of her seven books, four deal with Middle Eastern issues and the remainder with other international issues. Cobban continues to write on her year-old blog Just World News. More details of her career are on her listing on Wikipedia. He is the author or co-author of over 20 books. He has chaired or served on the board of numerous organizations including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

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