Progressive Politics
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From  NEW! The Rise of Jagmeet Singh: 2017From: From Layton to Singh |
Chapter 6 focuses on the rise of Jagmeet Singh and his victory in the NDP leadership race in 2017. The chapter covers topics including a brief history of Singh’s early life and political … | Matt Fodor | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Understanding ActivismFrom: Quiet No More |
Chapter five then identifies the strengths and weakness of the existing literature on progressive activism, and proposes a new approach that grasps the place, ideas, and organization of … | Joel D. Harden | 27 | 2013 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! When Is Your Time?Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In When Is Your Time? Nash explores the issues with waiting for the ‘right time’ to run for office. This chapter primarily focuses on advice for women running for office. | Peggy Nash | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Why Change Is Now PossibleFrom: Power Trap |
Points to the climate change issues, finanical crisis, and the wage gap as factors that prime this moment in time as one of change | Paul Adams | 28 | 2012 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Action Plan: Happiness Roles and Responsibilities |
Integrating Happiness Roles and Responsibilities – Appointing Happiness Roles and Responsibilities | Jean Crowder; Laura Musikanski; Rhonda Phillips | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! After the Hungry Days |
In “After the Hungry Days” the author explores money and financial hardship. Discussing their time in a psychiatric ward, mental health, dignity, the interconnection of poverty and … | Lori Fox | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Fighting for Survival: the 2019 Federal ElectionFrom: From Layton to Singh |
Chapter 7 examines the NDP under Jasmeet Singh’s leadership and party platform moving towards the 2019 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including Singh’s first … | Matt Fodor | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Five ways of thinking about thinkingFrom: Too Dumb for Democracy? |
Chapter Seven explores how our bodies, our psychology, our milieu, and our institutions happen to lead us down the path to bad decisions. Building a general model of political decision-making … | David Moscrop | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Gender Equity Policies |
By definition, gender equity helps reduce social inequalities. Incontrovertibly women are enriched, both financially and as citizens, when they are included on an equal footing with men in all … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Party or No Party?Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Party or No Party? Nash examines the decision to support and join a political party for which to run for office. The chapter explores topics such as branding of political parties, differences … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Swimming Upstream |
This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence … | Sami Grover | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From The Futures of Grassroots ActivismKey Themes to Keep in Mind From: Quiet No More |
Chapter six provides this book with the conclusion that brings together the insights of previous chapters. Above all, I argue that activists are faced with two important tasks: first, to embrace … | Joel D. Harden | 25 | 2013 | $2.50 Add |
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From  The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making From: The Power Manual |
The Social Aspects of Choice, focuses on how choice is informed by one’s environment and how one participates in collective choice. I highlight what I found most important about Carole … | Cyndi Suarez | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The utopia debateFrom: SOS |
Chapter 6 focuses on the idea of ‘utopia’, discussing Plato’s Republic, the anti-utopians, utopianism for the powerful and wealthy, and lived utopias. | Richard Swift | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! There’s Life after PoliticsFrom: Alexa! |
Looks at Alexa’s tenure as president at Mount Saint Vincent University and the early onset of her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Details her triumph and struggle with dementia as the years … | Stephen Kimber | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! We Keep Each Other SafeOrganizing for Prison Abolition during a Pandemic |
In We Keep Each Other Safe the authors examine how the pandemic has brought with it an opportunity to push for decarceration as well as opportunity to imagine what a world without prisons could … | Alannah Fricker; Jessica Evans; Rajean Hoilett | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
