Under Attack, Fighting Back

Under Attack, Fighting Back
Author: Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2000-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1583670084

Abramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, hopelessness, and male violence: swept them into low paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet.".

Fighting Back the Right

Fighting Back the Right
Author: David Niose
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137279249

An unlikely new alliance is fighting for rational, progressive public policy in America—to reverse the damage inflicted by decades of the religious right

Fighting Back in Appalachia

Fighting Back in Appalachia
Author: Stephen Fisher
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 1993-01-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0877229775

Author note: Stephen L. Fisher is Hawthorne Professor of Political Science at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.

Fighting for Rights

Fighting for Rights
Author: Ronald R. Krebs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-02-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0801459540

Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military's participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity and citizenship. Yet how and when do these policies transform patterns of citizenship? Military service, Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights. Minority groups have at times effectively contrasted their people's battlefield sacrifices to the reality of inequity, compelling state leaders to concede to their claims. At the same time, military service can shape when, for what, and how minorities have engaged in political activism in the quest for meaningful citizenship. Employing a range of rich primary materials, Krebs shows how the military's participation policies shaped Arab citizens' struggles for first-class citizenship in Israel from independence to the mid-1980s and African Americans' quest for civil rights, from World War I to the Korean War. Fighting for Rights helps us make sense of contemporary debates over gays in the military and over the virtues and dangers of liberal and communitarian visions for society. It suggests that rhetoric is more than just a weapon of the weak, that it is essential to political exchange, and that politics rests on a dual foundation of rationality and culture.

Fighting Back the Right

Fighting Back the Right
Author: David Niose
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137474831

The political scene is changing rapidly in America. The religious right is on the defensive, acceptance of gay rights is at an all-time high, social conservatives are struggling for relevance, and more Americans than ever identify as nonreligious. What does this mean for the country and the future? With these demographic shifts, can truly progressive, reason-based public policy finally gain traction? Or will America continue to carry a reputation as anti-intellectual and plutocratic, eager to cater to large corporate interests but reluctant to provide universal health care to all its citizens? Fighting Back the Right reveals a new alliance in the making, a progressive coalition committed to fighting for rational public policy in America and reversing the damage inflicted by decades of conservative dominance. David Niose, Legal Director of the American Humanist Association (AHA), examines this exciting new dynamic, covering not only the rapidly evolving culture wars but also the twists and turns of American history and politics that led to this point, and why this new alliance could potentially move the country in a direction of sanity, fairness, and human-centered public policy.

Fighting Back

Fighting Back
Author: Harold Werner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231078825

A Polish Jew relates his experiences as a fighter in a successful Jewish resistance group during World War II

Had Enough?

Had Enough?
Author: James Carville
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0743261771

Have you had enough of George W. Bush and the Republican right? Are you sick and tired of the tax-cutting, environment-desecrating, secret-keeping, influence-peddling, war-mongering, free speech-hating hypocrites who occupy America's halls of power? If so, you have company -- James Carville. Like James Carville, America has been bruised and battered by the Republicans who are running our country and running it into the ground. The Bush administration has squandered a five-trillion-dollar surplus and created a five-trillion-dollar projected deficit. Their tax cut for the rich was supposed to create jobs -- but instead America has lost more than three million of them. This administration was supposed to bring honor and dignity to the White House but instead brought lies, leaks, secrecy, and fear. They promised to make the country stronger and safer but instead they've left us overstretched, isolated, and insecure. And Carville has had enough. In Had Enough? the legendary political adviser comes out of his corner swinging, taking on the Bush White House and the Republican leaders in Congress on every front -- from the economy to education to foreign affairs. But he doesn't just attack; he lays out constructive "had enough" solutions for healing the damage done by the Republicans and helping disheartened Democrats get back on their feet. In addition, he offers "Ten Rules for Progressives to Live By" and a new War Room mantra for a new era. Had Enough? is a rousing handbook for taking back the country, for fighting back the right wing, and for returning the power to the people.

"We Return Fighting"

Author: Mark Robert Schneider
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781555534905

The first history of the dramatic civil rights battles fought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1920s, struggles that paved the way for advances made in the 1950s and 1960s.

Living Life Beyond Ourselves

Living Life Beyond Ourselves
Author: Deena Burnett
Publisher: Advantage Inspirational
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781597550376

Burnett, widow of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett, tells the story of how she fought back to find purpose and joy in her life again, after her husband was killed on that fateful day.