When Money Talks: The High Price of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy
When Money Talks is a detailed and thoughtful analysis of paid vs. free speech, exploring how the Citizens United Supreme Court decision to throw out limits on campaign spending is affecting the democratic process. Derek Cressman argues that a constitutional amendment is key to reclaiming the fate of the United States, and offers concerned citizens the tools they need to take action.
An extraordinary figure from left history comes to life in Kate Evans' extraordinary graphic novel. Rosa Luxemburg was a feminist trailblazer, a rigorous economic theorist, a Marxist heretic, a revolutionary socialist organizer, an antiwar campaigner and an irrepressible troublemaker. Red Rosa bursts with an irreverent humor, creativity, fierce intelligence and passion for justice that does its subject proud.
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
In the current "golden age" of philanthropy, nothing is as it seems. Sociologist Linsey McGoey analyzes the charitable sector in detail in this book, challenging the underlying motives and effects of foundations on a global scale. Corporate philanthropists, writes McGoey, “want to revolutionise the last realm untouched by the hyper-competitive, profit-oriented world of financial capitalism: the world of charitable giving.”
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Political organizer and internet hacktivist Aaron Swartz was one of the brightest minds of our generation and played a pivotal role in reshaping the internet, before his suicide (after being aggressively prosecuted by the government) shocked the nation. This insightful collection of Swartz’s writings reveals that, as Lawrence Lessig says, “Aaron was not just, or even primarily, a computer geek. His defining feature was a constant struggle for what he believed was right.”
Raw Deal: How the 'Uber Economy' and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers
Since the Great Recession, one in five new jobs is temporary - a direct result of the so-called "sharing economy." Robbed of a living wage, stability, or protection, consultants and contractors are left at the mercy of greedy corporations. Veteran journalist Steven Hill takes a hard look at the multi-billion dollar economic impact that companies like Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit are having on more than 145 million employed Americans.
Socialism ...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
In Socialism ...Seriously, Danny Katch seeks out a "positive path for humanity" in a refreshingly funny yet insightful exploration of the moral, practical, and rational implications of a modern socialist society. "Warning to all Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians," says actor and comedian Judah Friedlander, "this book might turn you into a closet socialist."
Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power
The work of Susan George "has provided deep understanding of the world in which we live," according to Noam Chomsky. In Shadow Sovereigns, George shows how global corporations, acting behind the scenes, now demand more control over the governance of our lives than ever before, making a mockery of democracy. Naomi Klein says this book "will galvanize those new to the subject while providing veteran opponents with renewed urgency and fresh insights."
Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice
More than a hundred illustrative graphs and charts bring to life the grim reality of economic inequality in Les Leopold's new book. Identifying the wealth gap as a root of nearly all the critical issues we face, from climate change to foreign relations, Leopold doesn't simply identify the problem, he offers the antidote: "Either we wage a large-scale battle for economic, social and environmental justice, or we will witness the continued deterioration of the world we inhabit."
The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America
As Bernie Sanders campaigns to become president of the United States, author Jonathan Tasini draws from the senator's speeches, statements, and interviews to outline his "people’s agenda" for the US. This short, accessible book also details specific legislation Sanders has championed on a number of core proposals, including single-payer health care, free public higher education, and preserving Social Security.
A collection of more than 30 powerful essays from the man called "a global phenomenon" and "perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet" by The New Times Book Review. In Because We Say So, Noam Chomsky gives his shrewd and penetrative analysis of current global crises including climate change, Israel and the Middle East, public education and nuclear politics.
Widely regarded as one of the foremost critics of US foreign and domestic policy, Noam Chomsky’s political writing has spanned nine presidential administrations. Truthout is proud to offer this mammoth collection from Haymarket Books, just in time for the holidays! The Noam Chomsky Collection comprises a dozen of Chomsky's most important books including essential and influential works like Fateful Triangle, Rogue States, Propaganda and the Public Mind, and Year 501: The Conquest Continues.
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Naleduff have collected a stunning array of feminist visions of a better world. These visions are expressed in interviews, essays, short stories, poetry and illustration, by feminist thinkers including Melissa Harris-Perry, Sheila Bapat, Janet Mock, Mariame Kaba, Victoria Law and Melissa Gira Grant, and covering topics from childcare to birth control, sex to the Constitution, education to justice. RH Reality Check says "It's impossible to imagine that readers will close the anthology unaware that another, better world is possible."
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Trans, gender non-conforming and queer people have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. From critiquing hate crimes legislation to demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle. This expanded second edition includes a new foreword from CeCe McDonald and essays by Chelsea Manning, Toshio Meronek and more.
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History... and Our Future!
"This is a guest list for a party of my heroes," says Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events. And what heroes they are, from Angela Davis to Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Baker to Lucy Parsons, Patti Smith, to Ursula K. Le Guin! Written by Kate Schatz with eye-catching illustrations by Miriam Klein Stahl, Rad American Women A-Z is a New York Times-bestselling book that will be appreciated by readers of all ages - a perfect holiday gift!
A coming-of-age story from a pioneering journalist, Fire Shut Up in My Bones tells of Charles Blow's journey: growing up in a segregated Louisiana town, surviving abuse from an older cousin, and finally coming to terms with his past. The AV Club calls this book "The memoir of the year" while Michelle Alexander says "No one who reads this book will be able to forget it... it is a true gift to us all."
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Historian Greg Grandin’s account of the United States' most controversial diplomat moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of modern US imperialism. Examining Kissinger's own writings, as well as a wealth of newly declassified documents, Grandin argues that to understand our contemporary never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home, we have to understand Henry Kissinger.
Is violence an inherent part of policing? In this revised and updated edition of his highly influential book, Kristian Williams makes a convincing case that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. Our Enemies in Blue traces the history of US policing from slave patrols to today's fatal shootings of unarmed young people.
Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza
In 1936, Lillian Rosengarten and her family fled Nazi Germany for New York. In this courageous and affecting memoir, Rosengarten tells how she overcame the shadow cast by the Nazis’ brutality while gaining empathy for the struggles of others, eventually becoming a strong advocate of Palestinian rights and joining the 2010 “Jewish Boat to Gaza" in an attempt break Israel’s punishing blockade of the Strip.
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Imagining a different future is something done by both science fiction authors and those fighting for a better world. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought together 20 organizers and activists in this remarkable and unique collection of short stories, ranging from dystopian sci-fi to supernatural fantasy, but all characterized by radical visions of social justice.
Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
In his latest collection, poet and organizer Remi Kanazi covers racist imperialism and militaristic repression from Palestine to the United States, but also celebrates international solidarity and the promise of liberation. These poems are powerfully evocative and full of wit and compassion. The Nation's Dave Zirin says that in Before the Next Bomb Drops, "Kanazi has raised the bar for how art and politics can serve one another for the greater good."
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Too many of us don't know the history of the domestic workers who became activists in order to bring legal recognition to their job in the 1960s and 70s. Premilla Nadasen's book sets the record straight, sharing the personal stories of the Black women who changed labor organizing forever and who declared “We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer.”
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
First published in 1971, this ambitious work of history by the late Eduardo Galeano tells the story of an entire continent over 500 years. Galeano displays a masterful understanding of colonialism, exploitation, capitalism, and racism against Latin America's indigenous populations. Open Veins was hailed as "a monument in our Latin American history" by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who chose to give the book as a gift to President Obama in 2009.
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
An essential resource for those engaged in criminal justice activism as well as those new to the subject, Understanding Mass Incarceration offers a comprehensive overview of the world’s largest jailer: the United States. James Kilgore illuminates key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken-windows policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, and prison privatization.
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
The WikiLeaks Files presents expert analysis on the 2010 release of top-secret State Department cables and, according to Noam Chomsky, “reveals a profound hatred of democracy on the part of our political leadership.” With contributions by Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail and long-time Truthout writers Phyllis Bennis, Gareth Porter and Robert Naiman, the book explores the machinations of the United States as it imposes its agenda on other nations.
The 51 Day War is more than a chronicle of war and devastation - it is an urgent warning that the aftermath of the 2014 conflict has made another Israeli military assault on Gaza almost inevitable. Max Blumenthal, author of the acclaimed Goliath, reveals the harrowing conditions and cynical deceptions that led to the ruinous war, and tells the human stories.
Shell-Shocked: On the Ground Under Israel's Assault
Journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through Operation Protective Edge with his wife and three-month-old son, provides a firsthand account of life on the ground during Israel’s assault. Shell-Shocked tells of the seven weeks of hostilities, the 2,200 dead and the more than 10,000 injured.
This unique and historically important book is the first of its kind. For 13 years, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detainee camp, without ever being charged with a crime by the US government, and in spite of a federal judge ordering his release. For the last decade, Slahi has been writing this frightening but often darkly funny memoir, telling the story of his life before and after he fell victim to a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Why are Black Americans so under attack, and what is it like to live within that experience? Ta-Nehisi Coates has written an open letter to his adolescent son in book form, in which the acclaimed journalist wrestles with the racist history and violent present of the United States and looks for a way forward. Toni Morrison calls Between the World and Me "required reading," and she's not alone.
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page," says Cornel West in his foreword to this collection of over 100 previously unpublished essays. Writing mostly during his years of solitary confinement on Death Row, Mumia Abu-Jamal gives his perspectives on issues ranging from racism in the US to the possibilities for social change, and from Edward Snowden to Ferguson.
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
While the Supreme Court has granted marriage equality, the criminal legal system in the US remains incredibly hostile to those who violate perceived norms of sex and gender - especially if they are not white or well-off. This groundbreaking book draws on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy to examine the experience of queer and trans people as criminal defendants, prisoners, and survivors of violent crimes. It's a vital read in this current historic moment!
Ben Stewart, the activist who spearheaded the campaign to release thirty Greenpeace activists thrown into Russia’s vicious prison system, tells an astonishing tale of passion, courage, brutality, and survival. Don’t Trust Don’t Fear Don’t Beg chronicles the extraordinary story of the activists who faced fifteen years of incarceration and had to struggle to stay true to the cause that brought them there.
In the tradition of Naomi Klein, Out of Sight provides a powerful new analysis of the harm done to workers and the environment in the age of globalization. Labor historian Erik Loomis follows the thread that runs from New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 to the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh in 2013.
In this extraordinarily panoramic book, Roberta Brandes Gratz tells the stories of New Orleans residents who returned to their homes after Hurricane Katrina to take the rebuilding of their city into their own hands. Gratz shows the strength of people who continue to work to rebuild their community, and she reveals what Katrina couldn’t destroy: the unwavering pride of one of the greatest cities in the United States.
How can the international community stand in solidarity with Palestinians? In this follow-up to their acclaimed collaboration Gaza in Crisis, Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky discuss Palestine’s past, present and future, and examine the possible strategies and solutions for ending Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people.
Noam Chomsky's Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
"There is no living political writer who has more radically changed how more people think in more parts of the world about political issues." - Glenn Greenwald
Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle
Two renowned educators, public intellectuals and Truthout contributors offer a big-picture critique of how the state and corporations use violence, consumerism, privatization and media to neutralize and control the public. According to author Robin D.G. Kelley, Disposable Futures asks and answers the question: "How is it that in this post-Fascist, post-Cold War era of peace and prosperity we are saddled with more war, violence, inequality and poverty than ever?"
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Sixteen for '16: A Progressive Agenda for a Better America
A regular analyst on Truthout, Salvatore Babones has exposed devastating US economic and social policies. Henry A. Giroux writes that "this book brilliantly critiques and offers concrete practices and policy suggestions about how to move from calls for empty reform to real change."
More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Edited by high school history teacher, education writer and activist Jesse Hagopian, this compelling book exposes how young people are stifled and shortchanged by an emphasis on standardized high-stakes test scores that has been pushed by so-called "education reformers." But the many voices in More Than a Score - teachers, students, parents and others - also chronicle the resistance movement that is pushing back against the "testocracy" across the country.
Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare
Award-winning journalist and lawyer Scott Horton, a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, compellingly details how government secrecy in the name of "national security" is eroding democracy in the United States. Jeremy Scahill calls Lords of Secrecy "a brilliantly devastating exposé of the shadow government that runs US national security policy."
In Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century, Free Press co-founder Robert McChesney describes the recent trajectory and degeneration of capitalism and reveals how notions of democratic media are becoming central to activists around the world seeking to establish post-capitalist democracies.
Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues
This collection of essays on the legal, moral and geopolitical aspects of US drone warfare is edited by Marjorie Cohn, a Truthout contributor and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Drones and Targeted Killing has already been called a "very important book" by Noam Chomsky and includes essays by Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin and Richard Falk.
The story of former Army Ranger Rory Fanning's walk across the US for the Pat Tillman Foundation is "great reading" according to Rebecca Solnit. The Chicago Tribune concluded that Fanning "shows us the imperial and harmful objective of US foreign policy. He shows us the courage to walk away from it, and he shows us a path to a saner society."
"Through a gripping narrative that combines plenty of factual data with compelling storytelling, Diaz makes the convincing case that the gun industry is knowingly trading American lives for profits…After the tragedy of Newtown, if you are going to read one book to understand the current political fight in Washington, this is it." - Joshua Horwitz, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
"In his eminently readable style, mixing science and anecdote, Diaz shows how our leaders have created gun policies that are good for the gun industry but horrific for our nation. He also describes solutions worthy of the name. What a timely book!" - David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy, Harvard
"What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States. With her characteristic brilliance, historical insight, and penetrating analysis, Davis addresses examples of institutional injustice and explores the radical notion of freedom as a collective striving for real democracy - not a thing granted by the state, law, proclamation, or policy, but a participatory social process, rooted in difficult dialogues, that demands new ways of thinking and being."
Canadian journalist Dawn Paley's new book shows, "with remarkable clarity and depth of analysis, all the ways drug war capitalism is capitalism, that there is little difference between what is called international crimes and what passes for global commerce," according to Greg Grandin, author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom and Deception in the New World
"A tremendously disturbing and important book about the devastating increase in our prison population...The questions that it poses call for answers that too few of those in power have been brave enough to give." - Jonathan Kozol on the original Race to Incarcerate
"Explains why prisoners have become commodities and why present policies are draining black communities of their young men." - Julian Bond
"An important book. The numbers tell a shocking story." - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
From Maya Schenwar, Truthout's Editor-in-Chief, comes a hard-hitting and personal exploration of the enormous damage prison causes by severing millions of people from their families and communities - and the practical alternatives to incarceration that can create a safer, more just world.
"This book has the power to transform hearts and minds, opening us to new ways of imagining what justice can mean for individuals, families, communities, and our nation as a whole... I turned the last page feeling nothing less than inspired." - Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: (Revisioning American History)
“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awarenesses, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers—settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing—to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.” —Bill Ayers
"Once again, McChesney stands at the crossroads of media dysfunction and the denial of democracy, illuminating the complex issues involved and identifying a path forward to try to repair the damage. Here's hoping the rest of us have the good sense to listen this time." - Eric Alterman, professor of English and journalism, Brooklyn College, CUNY
"A provocative and far-reaching account of how capitalism has shaped the Internet in the United States. . . . a valuable addition to the literature on the digital age." - Kirkus Reviews
"Robert McChesney is one of the nation’s most important analysts of the media." -Howard Zinn
No Good Men Among the Living: America, The Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes
“A brilliant, incisive work of storytelling and analysis. Of all the recent books on Afghanistan, this one stands out like a bright shining light, revealing the truth of the war from the ground up. Breathtaking and magnificent, this is a must read.” - Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
"A compelling and powerfully written memoir about identity and coming of age...If the outlines of Justice Sotomayor's life are well known by now, her searching and emotionally intimate memoir, My Beloved World, nonetheless has the power to surprise and move the reader...This account of her life is revealing, keenly observed and deeply felt...This insightful memoir underscores just how well Justice Sotomayor mastered the art of narrative. It's an eloquent and affecting testament to the triumph of brains and hard work over circumstance, of a childhood dream realized through extraordinary will and dedication." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
"Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education... The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America." - Utah State University Press
If you are wondering why the Arizona legislature has appeared to turn into a Tea Party version of the Ku Klux Klan, the remarkable documentary Precious Knowledge: Arizona's Battle Over Ethnic Studies provides an invaluable insight into why.
In Precious Knowledge this battle for the nation's future plays out in the state's now successful effort to ban Mexican-American studies, specifically in Tucson. While Mexican-American young people comprise the vast majority of public school students in Tucson, a couple of opportunistic politicians decided that teaching Mexican-American heritage and culture was threatening to the white power structure – although they state their objections in more euphemistic terms, such the curriculum is "Anti-American."
"Despite years of feminism and such activist groups as Women Strike for Peace, much of the female population in the world is often powerless, forced to remain voiceless and subjugated to acts of extreme violence in the home, on school campuses and anywhere men deem they should dominate… The few women who do stand up and shout to the world are the exception, not the rule, and Solnit provides a platform and a voice for them and the thousands who are too overwhelmed by fear and guilt to speak up." - Kirkus Reviews
"Activist extraordinaire Medea Benjamin has documented how the U.S. government’s use of drones to murder hundreds of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen has increased the danger to our national security. Benjamin’s Drone Warfare is the first book that reveals the vocal international citizen opposition that challenges the legality and morality of America’s extrajudicial execution drones before they kill here at home."
- Ann Wright, U.S. Army colonel (ret.) and former deputy chief of mission for U.S. embassies in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and elsewhere
“A hard-hitting attack on current drug policy by…a neuroscientist who grew up on the streets of one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods…An eye-opening, absorbing, complex story of scientific achievement in the face of overwhelming odds” - Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Author Nir Rosen writes of The Imperial Messenger that it is a "long overdue takedown of a dangerous fraud...an antidote for those suffering from admiration of Friedman and a palliative for those of us who have had aneurysms in reaction to his every latest bloviation."
The late internationally noted Professor Edward Said said of Friedman: "It is not just the comic philistinism of Friedman's ideas that I find so remarkably jejune, or his sassy and unbeguiling manner… It is rather the special combination of disarming incoherence and unearned egoism that gives him his cockily alarming plausibility—qualities that may explain [From Beirut to Jerusalem]'s startling commercial success. It's as if… what scholars, poets, historians, fighters, and statesmen have done is not as important or as central as what Friedman himself thinks."
"A Dream Foreclosed is a powerful combination of riveting stories about four defrauded families and their fight back together with the broader documentation of Wall Street's corporate crimes that crashed the economy. Laura Gottesdiener, a veteran of Occupy Wall Street, has the acute eye and pen of a young progressive star with extraordinary talent. Her pages should grip you with motivational indignation." - Ralph Nader
"West of Memphis is a scrupulous examination of the conviction of three small-town Arkansas teenagers for the brutal murder of three small boys in 1993. The evidence was flimsy and contrived, the confessions extracted under duress, the social prejudice palpable and perjury rife. The prevaricating Arkansas authorities were at best pigheadedly cynical, at worst criminally conspiratorial, and the movie is a shocking indictment of the American criminal justice system." - Guardian UK
"No, the US government's sanctioning of torture didn't start with the Iraq War, as Marjorie Cohn - a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild - proves in this important anthology. As the NYU Press notes: 'The United States and Torture opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable treatment she endured in Guatemala in 1987 at the hands of the the Guatemalan government, which was supported by the United States. Following Ortiz's preface, an interdisciplinary panel of experts offers one of the most comprehensive examinations of torture to date, beginning with the Cold War era and ending with today's debate over accountability for torture."
"Frightening, gripping and inspiring...Northup's story seems almost biblical, structured as it is as a descent and resurrection narrative of a protagonist who, like Christ, was 33 at the time of his abduction...Northup reminds us of the fragile nature of freedom in any human society and the harsh reality that whatever legal boundaries existed between so-called free states and slave states in 1841, no black man, woman or child was permanently safe." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Editor of Penguin Edition
A monumentally important documentary about the power of moral authority to prevail against the KKK, racist elected officials, and even the reluctance of the Kennedy brothers to stir up what was then the Democratic (albeit segregationist) South.
Freedom Riders tells a complex political story about a simple goal: desegregating interstate buses and bus stations in the deep South.
In the end, after horrifying violence and imprisonment that affected around 400 Freedom Rider volunteers from across America, Robert F. Kennedy (on behalf of the president) relented and implemented a regulation that banned segregation on interstate bus lines and in bus station waiting rooms. Anyone who wants to see how a relatively small group of committed people can force the president of the United States to take a stand on behalf of justice should see this documentary.
"Here is story-telling that is unique, refreshing, and revealing, and the Nelson Mandela who emerges—more nuanced than I ever understood and even more admirable—is someone you will want to know. You will be both surprised by Mandela’s profoundly complex personality and grateful for Danny Schechter’s creative journalism."- Bill Moyers
"For most of the planet, the specter of global warming is ominous, but as journalist Funk reveals in this startling book, there are those who view the Earth's dangerous meltdown as a golden opportunity...Funk's original, forthright take on this little-discussed profit-taking trend in the climate change sweepstakes is very unsettling." - Publisher's Weekly
Due to endless human appetites, huge factory ships are now depleting the number of fish in the ocean, which is also experiencing the adverse effects of global warming. The net result is that by 2050, we may no longer have a supply of edible fish from our seas. "Overfishing is the great environmental disaster that people haven't heard about," said the documentary's producer George Duffield. This is not merely an indictment of mercenary corporate fishing, it also exposes how consumers choose to ignore the impact of eating endangered fish.
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