Necessary trouble, Americans in revolt, Sarah Jaffe
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Necessary trouble, Americans in revolt, Sarah Jaffe
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Necessary trouble
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
951917277
Responsibility statement
Sarah Jaffe
Sub title
Americans in revolt
Summary
We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century black freedom struggle with BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street, and the grassroots networks supporting presidential candidates in defiance of the traditional party elites. Sarah Jaffe leads readers into the heart of these movements, explaining what has made ordinary Americans become activists. As Jaffe argues, the financial crisis in 2008 was the spark, the moment that crystallized that something was wrong. For years, Jaffe crisscrossed the country, asking people what they were angry about, and what they were doing to take power back. She attended a people's assembly in a church gymnasium in Ferguson, Missouri; walked a picket line at an Atlanta Burger King; rode a bus from New York to Ohio with student organizers; and went door-to-door in Queens days after Hurricane Sandy. From the successful fight for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle and New York to the halting of Shell's Arctic drilling program, Americans are discovering the effectiveness of making good, necessary trouble. Regardless of political alignment, they are challenging who wields power in this country
Table Of Contents
Introduction: No future shock -- Banks got bailed out, we got sold out -- Middle-class meltdown and the debt trap -- Walmart, Walmart, you can't hide, we can see your greedy side -- Challenging the Austeritarians -- Race to the bottom -- A moral movement -- Red scares and radical imagination -- The militarization of everything -- Change is gonna come -- Conclusion: Our future is not yours to leverage
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- Political participation
- Protest movements
- Politics and government
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
- Activists -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
- Social movements
- Political activists -- United States
- Political activists
- Social movements -- United States
- Political participation -- United States
- Protest movements -- United States
- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
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- Political participation
- Protest movements
- Politics and government
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
- Activists -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
- Social movements
- Political activists -- United States
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- Social movements -- United States
- Political participation -- United States
- Protest movements -- United States
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- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
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