Download or read book Gag Rule written by Lewis Lapham and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America’s most important voices of protest, an urgent polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of our democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, had voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties, and by an ever more concentrated and profit-driven media in which the safe and the selling sweep all uncomfortable truths from view. In the midst of the “war on terror”—which made the hunt for communists in the 1950s look, in its clarity of aim and purpose, like the Normandy landings on D-Day—we faced a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. The Bush administration made no secret of its contempt for a cowed and largely silenced electorate, and without bothering to conceal its purpose the government coordinates, “not the defense of the American citizenry against a foreign enemy, but the protection of the American oligarchy from the American democracy.” Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties, the right to raise our voices in dissent and have those voices heard.
Download or read book Stifling Dissent written by Jayshree Bajoria and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "India's constitution protects the right to peaceful expression and its courts have issued numerous decisions that are protective of the right. However governments at both the national and state level persist in using harsh laws, many of them relics of the colonial era, to criminalize peaceful expression and arrest critics. While some prosecutions, in the end, have been dismissed or abandoned, many people who have engaged in nothing more than peaceful criticism have been arrested, held in pre-trial detention, and forced to defend themselves in costly criminal proceedings. Fear of such actions has led others to engage in self-censorship. In 2016 there has been a spike in the number of sedition cases filed nationwide. Human Rights Watch calls on the Indian government to drop all pending charges and investigations against those who are facing prosecution for the exercise of their right to freedom of expression, halt the abuse of the legal process and detain critics, and amend or repeal relevant laws to bring them into line with international human rights standards"--Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book Dissent and the Failure of Leadership written by Stephen P. Banks and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection of original papers explores the vital but largely unrecognized connections between leadership and dissent. In an era when leadership failures can mean homelessness and even death for countless flood victims, losses of life savings for employees of bankrupt corporations, civilian deaths and ravaged societies in the Middle East and incalculable suffering among refugees in central Africa, the studies presented here offer analysis and correctives based on new understandings of the dissent leadership relationship. The book examines how dissent is implicated in problems plaguing theory development in leadership studies. Topics explored within this framework include dissent in corporate discourses of control, real and manufactured crises, cross-generational perceptions, women leaders personal and work lives, the professionalization of journalism, religious institutions, activist public relations and fear-based cultures. It concludes with new proposals for legitimating dissent as a unique instrument for advancing social development and avoiding failures of leadership. Examining dissent as the critical factor that differentiates leadership failures and successes from interdisciplinary perspectives, this illuminating book will be of great interest to advanced students and teachers of leadership studies, as well as corporate executives, policymakers and other leaders aware of the need to improve leadership practices.
Download or read book Just War Against Terror written by Jean Elshtain and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Bethke Elshtain advocates "just war" in times of crisis and mounts a reasoned attack against the anti-war contingent in American intellectual life. Advocating an ethic of responsibility, Elshtain forces us to ask tough questions not only about the nature of terrorism, but about ourselves. This paperback edition features a new introduction by the author, addressing the Iraq war and other events in the Middle East.
Download or read book 5 Year wise CLAT New Pattern Previous Year Solved Papers 2024 2020 with 10 Mock Tests 3rd Edition 120 Passage based MCQs Useful for AILET SLAT LLB 2025 Law Exams written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated and revised 3rd edition of the book 5 Year-wise CLAT New Pattern Previous Year Solved Papers (2024 - 2020) with 10 Mock Tests contains: # Detailed solutions of past 5 years of CLAT 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 papers. # 10 Quality Mock Tests designed especially on the new Passage based Pattern of the CLAT exam # Each Mock Test contains 120 Passage based newly designed questions. # The authentic solution to each and every question has been provided. # 100% errorless solutions are given.
Download or read book Patriots written by Christian G. Appy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war. "A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely." -The Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Silencing Dissent written by Clive Hamilton and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, the Howard government has found ways to silence its critics, one by one. Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, Australians have become accustomed to repeated attacks on respected individuals and organizations. For a government which claims to support freedom of speech and freedom of choice, only certain kinds of speech and choices appear to be acceptable. Silencing Dissent uncovers the tactics used by John Howard and his colleagues to undermine dissenting and independent opinion. Bullying, intimidation, public denigration, threats of withdrawal of fundi.
Download or read book Public Affairs written by William M. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the tensions and controversies that developed as the war lengthened and the news media went about their traditional tasks. The first of two volumes on the subject, it draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the role the press played during the war.--[foreword].
Download or read book Public Affairs written by William M. Hammond and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1988 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.
Download or read book Empowering Public Administrators written by Amanda M. Olejarski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administrators need to be empowered to make difficult decisions. Acting in the public interest often means doing what is ethical even when it is an unpopular choice. Yet, too often, public servants at the local, state, and federal levels internalize the notion that their hands are tied and that they are limited in their ability to effect change. Empowering Public Administrators: Ethics and Public Service Values provides a much-needed antidote to inaction, offering a new lens for viewing administrative decision-making and behavior. This book makes a case for bringing historically significant theories to the forefront of public service ethics by applying them to a series of current ethical challenges in practice. Exploring administrative discretion as modern bureaucrats govern public affairs in a political context, this collection builds on the normative foundations of public administration and provides readers with a scaffold for understanding and practicing public service values. Questions for discussion and applications to practice are included in each chapter making this collection of interest to public affairs master’s and doctoral students as well as public service practitioners.
Download or read book Mutinies for Equality written by Tanja Herklotz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies recent transformations in the area of law and gender in modern India. It tackles legal and social developments with regard to family life, sexuality, motherhood, surrogacy, erotic labour, sexual harassment in the workplace and violence against women, among others. It analyses reform efforts towards women's and LGBTIQ rights and attempts to situate where a reform has taken place, by whom it was brought about, and what impact it has had on society. It engages with protagonists who shape the debate around law and gender and locate their efforts into a socio-political context, thereby showing that the discourses around law and gender are closely connected to broader debates around pluralism, secularism and religion, identity, culture, nationalism, and family. The book offers compelling evidence that the drivers of change are emerging from beyond the traditional institutions of courts and parliament, and that to understand the everyday implications of gender based reform, it is important to look beyond only these institutional sources.
Download or read book Shattering the Bigot Label written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of being called a bigot simply for having different beliefs? Discover the insidious tactics used to silence you and learn how to fight back! Ready to crack the code on why activists call you a bigot? Struggling with feelings of guilt and shame for standing up for your beliefs? Sick of watching others be dehumanized while you stay silent? • Learn how to spot and counteract the tactics used by cultural Marxists to silence you. • Understand the true nature of bigotry and why you've been unfairly labeled as one. • Regain your confidence to stand up for your values and beliefs without fear. • Discover how to reclaim your rights and identity from the clutches of political correctness. • Learn the legal and psychological tools to protect yourself from false accusations. • Uncover the hidden truths behind activist movements and start making an informed difference. • Strengthen your relationships with friends and family by sharing your newfound knowledge and understanding. • Become the empowered, rational individual you were always meant to be. If you want to break free from the bigot label and reclaim your identity, then buy this book today!
Download or read book Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention written by Carla Ferstman and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines how governments misuse detention to abuse power, suppress dissent and maintain social hierarchies. Proposing solutions for future policy, this is a call for greater respect for the rule of law and human rights.
Download or read book The Retreat from Organization written by Elisabeth Armstrong and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using books, articles, unpublished letters, political manifestos, posters, and other such ephemeral remainders, The Retreat from Organization offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present. These materials reveal paths left unexplored and organization efforts still unfinished to suggest new possibilities for present feminist politics. Debates about the second wave women's movement revolve around the identity and the identification of the subject of feminism and rarely ask, as this book does, how feminism operates as a collective movement. Armstrong attempts to complicate how we disagree over feminism by asking questions about identity and organization, the subject and the movement, and ultimately, what "feminism" should be in our present context of passionate indeterminacy.
Download or read book Public Service Ethics written by James S. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study and practice of ethics, in all its exemplary and execrable forms, matter now more than ever. It deals with one of the most gripping questions in life: "What is the right thing to do?" Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, Third Edition, introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topic—the necessity of ethics, intriguing human behavior experiments, provocative approaches to decision-making, new theories to understand ethical actions, the role of ethics codes, whistleblowing incidents, corruption exposés, and the grandeur as well as decay of morality—there is no shortage of controversy. This book discusses these issues, explains how they arise, and suggests what can be done about them. The authors make the narrative user-friendly and accessible by highlighting dilemmas, challenging readers to resolve them, and enticing them to go beyond the text to discover and confront new issues. New to this Third Edition: Exploration of fascinating and important new topics such as the Green New Deal, Black Lives Matter, oaths of office, classroom dishonesty, state corruption, the Biden administration, and the ethical challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and response. In-depth profiles of newsworthy figures, including Michael Flynn, Alexander Vindman, Anthony Fauci, and John Lewis. All new case studies drawing on actual and hypothetical events to give students an opportunity to apply concepts and analytical frameworks. All new end-of-chapter discussion questions and exercises to encourage students to think more deeply about ethical issues. The authors' conversational writing style invites readers to annotate pages with their own ideas, experiences, comparisons, and insights, bolstering students' confidence and ultimately preparing them for the ethical problems they will face in their own careers. This lively and thorough new edition is required reading for all public administration and public policy students.
Download or read book The Epistemology of Protest written by José Medina and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Epistemology of Protest offers a polyphonic theory of protest as a mechanism for political communication, group constitution, and epistemic empowerment. The book analyzes the communicative power of protest to break social silences and disrupt insensitivity and complicity with injustice. Philosopher José Medina also elucidates the power of protest movements to transform social sensibilities and change the political imagination. Medina's theory of protest examines the obligations that citizens and institutions have to give proper uptake to protests and to communicatively engage with protesting publics in all their diversity, without excluding or marginalizing radical voices and perspectives. Throughout the book, Medina gives communicative and epistemic arguments for the value of imagining with protest movements and for taking seriously the radical political imagination exercised in social movements of liberation. Medina's theory sheds light on the different ways in which protest can be silenced and the different communicative and epistemic injustices that protest movements can face, arguing for forms of epistemic activism that resist silencing and communicative/epistemic injustices while empowering protesting voices. While arguing for democratic obligations to give proper uptake to protest, the book underscores how demanding listening to protesting voices can be under conditions of oppression and epistemic injustice. A central claim of the book is that responsible citizens have an obligation to echo (or express communicative solidarity with) the protests of oppressed groups that have been silenced and epistemically marginalized. Studying social uprisings, the book further argues that citizens have a duty to join protesting publics when grave injustices are in the public eye.
Download or read book The Nazi Paradigm written by Mark Jarmuth and published by Mark Jarmuth. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction. 408 pages (includes notes and index). This is the book our two major political parties hope you won't read. Should you ignore their wishes, you'll discover how the path they have charted is leading the US into the same abyss Germany found in the 1930s. As we've traveled down this path, the signs we were headed in the wrong direction have been as recognizable as in that country as it languished under authoritarian rule. Free speech has been suppressed, democracy has been dismantled and politically correct views inimical to popular preferences have been imposed through judicial and bureaucratic decree. Read the book and find out more...... Learn the identity of our nation's first authoritarian leader, discover who were the forerunners of American fascism and who are the new despised minorities in the US and modern analogues to the German Jews of the Nazi Era. SUBJECT KEYWORDS: the secret history, national review online, jonah goldberg, facists, what is fascism, liberal fascism, about the bible, american fascism, nazis, the nazi party, german nazi, fascism in the United States, neonazi, nazi concentration camps, nazi camps, the nazi, what is nazi, nazism, hitler nazi, nazi and jews, nazi holocaust, wwii, worldwar2, second world war, the nazis, reich, america story of us, facist, hitler, hitler death, bible, about the bible, world war 2, world war ii, world war two, ww2, world war 1, world war 2, adolph hitler, nazism, holocaust, the holocaust, the third reich, national socialist, eva braun, auschwitz, concentration camps, where is auschwitz, what is auschwitz.
