Now We Are Citizens

Author : Nancy Grey Postero
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755207
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now We Are Citizens written by Nancy Grey Postero and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model.

Author : Nancy Postero
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294033
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indigenous State written by Nancy Postero and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new "democratic cultural revolution," Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures in the ten years since Morales's election

Author : Laine Falk
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780531213490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We are Citizens written by Laine Falk and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what a citizen is and looks at some of the things that make a person a good citizen.

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship in a Republic written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. One notable passage from the speech is referred to as "The Man in the Arena": It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

Author : Tony Woodlief
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772115
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I, Citizen written by Tony Woodlief and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly they’ve convinced everyday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because we’ve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on the Left and the Right, that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the quiet collusion within our nation’s political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, they’ve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens don’t have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one another’s throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but there’s still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.

Author : Dan Greaney
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557638585
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens! written by Dan Greaney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vital issues of our society and time--social, political, economic, and environmental--are diced with lively, thoughtful insight in these citizen essays. Retired teacher Helen Good created this project in her home-town newspaper: every other week for a year the paper published an essay exploring an important citizen issue. The paper followed an A-Z format, producing twenty-six essays over the year. In a variety of voices, the essays scrutinize rationales for topical political positions and seek to establish criteria for citizen choices. Whether one finally agrees with any particular essay or not, they make an insightful read that inspires intelligent citizenship'the only kind that can long endure as a democracy.Dan P. Greaney has worked with the people of Blue Oak to assemble the essays as Citizens! A-Z Essays on What's Important, complete with introductory vignettes of the citizen authors, creating a picture of Americana in the ongoing struggle for democracy.

Author : Isabel Sawhill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230362
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2346 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 2346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Tritium Apps LLP
ISBN 13 : 1577822625
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of God written by and published by Tritium Apps LLP. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019993942X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For written by Peter Levine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confirms what advocates of civic engagement have long hypothesized: that strengthening the networks between government and civil society and increasing citizen participation results in better government and better community outcomes. However, citizens concerned about the economic crisis need more than just deliberation or community organizing alone to achieve these outcomes. What they need, according to Peter Levine, is a movement devoted to civic renewal. Deliberative democracy-the idea that true democratic legitimacy derives from open, inclusive discussion and dialogue rather than simple voting-has become an extremely influential concept in the last two decades. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Peter Levine contends that effective deliberative democracy depends upon effective community advocacy. Deliberation, he shows, is most valuable when talk and debate are integrated into a community's everyday life. To illustrate how it works, Levine draws lessons from both community organizing and developmental psychology, and uses examples of successful efforts from communities across America as well as fledgling democracies in Africa and Eastern Europe. By engaging in this type of civic work, American citizens can meaningfully contribute to civic renewal, which, in turn, will address serious social problems that cannot be fixed in any other way"--