Silencing Political Dissent

Author : Nancy Chang
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609803035
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silencing Political Dissent written by Nancy Chang and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power. Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical review of political repression and intolerance of dissent in America. From the Sedition Act of 1798, through the Smith Act of the 1940s and the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, to the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, Chang recalls how during times of crisis and war, the U.S. government has unjustly detained individuals, invaded personal privacy, and hampered the free speech of Americans. Chang's expertise as a senior constitutional attorney shines through in the power and clarity of her argument. Meticulously researched and footnoted, Chang's book forces us to challenge the government when it is unpopular to do so, and to consider that perhaps "our future safety lies in the expansion, rather the contraction, of the democratic values set forth in the Constitution."

Author : Nancy Chang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silencing Political Dissent written by Nancy Chang and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741761190
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791430859
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silencing the Opposition written by Craig R. Smith and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines major challenges to the First Amendment using case studies of the various forms of governmental suppression in U. S. history.

Author : Bud Schultz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224027
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Dissent written by Bud Schultz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the activists in three of the "most dramatic, sustained" social movements of the twentieth century: the labor, civil rights, and antiwar movements. Provides an overview and brief history of each of these movements. Activists in each of these movements recall the courage needed to stand up to resistance from the police and the government (from the FBI to Congress and the White House), and the struggle to overcome violence and accusations of treachery and subversion.

Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741751017
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silencing Dissent written by Clive Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frightening analysis of the tactics used by the Howard government to silence independent experts and commentators as well as public servants and organisations which criticise its policies.

Author : Kirsten Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621573915
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silencing written by Kirsten Powers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an exposé of the illiberal war on free speech. No longer champions of tolerance and free speech, the "illiberal Left" now viciously attacks and silences anyone with alternative points of view. Powers asks, "What ever happened to free speech in America?"

Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674263618
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy’s Prisoner written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America’s role in World War I. Though many called Debs a traitor, others praised him as a prisoner of conscience, a martyr to the cause of free speech. Nearly a million Americans agreed, voting for a man whom the government had branded an enemy to his country. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Ernest Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. Debs was one of thousands of Americans arrested for speaking his mind during the war, while government censors were silencing dozens of newspapers and magazines. When peace was restored, however, a nationwide protest was unleashed against the government’s repression, demanding amnesty for Debs and his fellow political prisoners. Led by a coalition of the country’s most important intellectuals, writers, and labor leaders, this protest not only liberated Debs, but also launched the American Civil Liberties Union and changed the course of free speech in wartime. The Debs case illuminates our own struggle to define the boundaries of permissible dissent as we continue to balance the right of free speech with the demands of national security. In this memorable story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America’s most prized ideals.

Author : Scott Lucas
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Betrayal of Dissent written by Scott Lucas and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scathing attack on Hitchens and others who have used Orwell to justify reactionary responses to the 'war on terror'.

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019166782X
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements written by Donatella della Porta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume brings together the most distinguished social and political scientists working in this field, each writing thought-provoking essays in their area of expertise, and facilitates conversations between classic social movement agenda and lines of research. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements discusses core theoretical perspectives, recent contributions from the field, and how patterns of macro social change may affect social movements, as well as suggesting what contributions social movement studies can give to other research areas in various disciplines.