Tag: Activists

Free Download Elizabeth Holzer, "The Concerned Women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0801456908 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb
In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-standing refugee camp. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the host government of Ghana established the Buduburam Refugee Camp in 1990 to provide sanctuary for refugees from the Liberian civil war (1989-2003). Long hailed as a model of effectiveness, Buduburam offered a best-case scenario for how to handle a refugee crisis. But what happens when refugees and humanitarian actors disagree over humanitarian aid? In Buduburam, refugee protesters were met with Ghanaian riot police. Holzer uses the clash to delve into the complex and often hidden world of humanitarian politics and refugee activism.

Free Download Sarah S. Stroup, "Borders among Activists: International NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 080145073X | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world―international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)―organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services.

Free Download Oliver Lovesey, "Victorian Social Activists’ Novels Vol 1"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138765872 | EPUB | pages: 342 | 0.5 mb
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 1 includes a general introduction ‘ The Wife’ and ‘Janet Doncaster’.

Free Download David Levering Lewis, Michael H. Nash, Daniel J. Leab, "Red Activists and Black Freedom: James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415472555, 0415637422 | EPUB | pages: 114 | 2.5 mb
This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940’s and early 1950’s. This approach needs serious re-thinking in light of what took place in the later 1930’s with the organization and activity of groups like the Southern Negro Youth Congress that brought both African-American and white workers and students together in the fight for economic and social justice. Thanks to the post-World War II Red Scare such groups as well as Left African-American leaders like Esther and James Jackson have been overlooked or excised from an exciting, controversial, and important story. With all due credit to the churches which played such a pivotal role in finally winning Blacks their civil rights, the early history involving the Left, workers of both races, and the labor unions must be assimilated into America’s memory, for there were important continuities between what they did and the later church-based struggle.

Free Download Brian Balogh, "Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs"
English | ISBN: 0300253788 | 2024 | 384 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How a woman-led citizens’ group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development