Author(s): Ronnie Cummins
Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT, 2020, pp. 208 (pb)
Cummins is the founder of the US Organic Consumers Association and involved in international environmental activism. His book focuses primarily on changing agriculture and on a renewable fuel policy.
Author(s): Rory Carroll
Canongate, London, 2013, pp. 320
Author(s): Rosa Luxemburg
Merlin Press, London, 1963, pp. 87
Originally published: 1906
Also available in Mary Alice Waters, ed., Rosa Luxemburg Speaks, New York, Pathfinder Press, 1970; and in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, 14 vols, London, Verso Books, 2011.
Discusses the evolution, nature and significance of the (predominantly unarmed) 1905 Revolution in Russia, and reflects Luxemburg’s emphasis on the importance of popular initiative and cooperation, as opposed to centralised party leadership – themes developed in her pamphlets ‘The Russian Revolution’ and ‘Leninism or Marxism’, both republished in 1961 under those joint titles (Ann Arbor paperback, University of Michigan Press). The standard study of Luxemburg is: Peter Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg, Oxford University Press, 1966 and 1969 (abridged edition).
Author(s): Rosa Parissi
In: Wendy R. Tyndale, Visions of Development: Faith-based Initiatives, Farnham, Ashgate, 2006 , pp. 137-144
References to the Sebastian Acevedo Movement also occur in Inger Agger, Søren Buus Jensen, Trauma and Healing Under State Terrorism, London, Zed Books, 1996 , pp. 246 , who see it as ‘an expression both of psychological counter-strategies at the private and political level and of healing strategies at the societal level’ (p. 184) but do not describe its methodology. Vincent W. Lloyd, The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology, Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 2011 , pp. 256 , pp. 109-11, discusses its liturgical aspects in comparison with contemporary Critical Mass bicycle rides.
Author(s): Rosario Domínguez
La Malatesta Editorial, Madrid, 2012, pp. 147
Tells the story of the insumisos from the point of view of one of the mothers. It begins with a summary of the historical process and then introduces a personal narrative of the experience of trials and jail, and the struggle of the conscientious objectors’ mothers association. Includes press articles and pictures which illustrate each element of the story.
Author(s): Rose Palmer
In: Culture Trip, 2017
Provides historical background to the formation of the #NiUnaMenos movement in Argentina in 2015, which extended to other parts of Latin America, and gives an account of the demands, which were taken up by the government.
See also a more recent article on the development of the movement https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/while-u-s-has-metoo-latin-america-s-ni-una-n875091.
Author(s): Rosemary Soliman
Vol PhD, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2018, pp. 271
This work explores the causes of women’s under-representation of women in Japanese politics, their portrayal in Japanese media and the extent of their participation in social movements.
Author(s): Ross Jackson
Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont VT, 2012, pp. 336
The chair of the Danish-based Gaia Trust advocates return to smaller decentralised communities with a more sustainable life style.
Introduction by Mark Garavan
Author(s): Rossport 5
Small World Media2007, pp. 208
Accounts by five farmers (and wives) jailed for resisting Shell high-pressure gas pipeline in County Mayo, Ireland. This campaign against Shell’s gas refinery gained national and transnational attention and support, and involved reciprocal solidarity actions with the Ogoni people.
Author(s): Roy Abhery
In: The Economic Times, 2018
This article reviews the birth and development of the #MeToo movement in India and its protagonists – mainly members of the movie industry - one year after its widespread endorsement in the US.
Author(s): Rubina Saigol
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Islamabad, 2016, pp. 51
Explores the divisions in the feminist movement in Pakistan and how feminists see or silence the intersections between sexuality, religion, race and class in the struggle for equality in Pakistan. It contextualises the analysis within the legacies of colonial relations, nationalist reformation, development policies and neoliberal economies, including new forms of militarism introduced with the global war on terror, and the transformations of the political space across Pakistan’s political history.
Author(s): Rudolf Bahro
New Society Publishers, Philadelphia PA, 1986, pp. 219
Collection of writings (from Nov. 1982 to June 1985) by former East German dissident and radical ecologist. Covers issue such as North-South relations, the peace movement and the crucial role of communes in rebuilding an ecologically sound society. Includes his statement on resigning from the German Greens, claiming that they ‘have identified themselves -critically- with the industrial system and its administration’.
Author(s): Rudolf L. Tokes
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 554
Chapter 4, pp. 167-209, covers opposition and dissent from 1962 into the 1980s.
Editor(s): Rudolf L. Tokes
Macmillan, London, 1979, pp. 306
Includes surveys of human rights and political change, worker resistance and potential for peasant opposition, and essays on Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and Hungary from 1968-1978.
Author(s): Rufaro Samanga
In: OkayAfrica, 2019
Brief account of the emergence of #CampusMeToo movement in 2019, which aims to tackle the sexual harassment of students on Kenyan university campuses. The movement arose after ActionAid and UN Women teamed up and conducted a survey which reportedly found that 1 in 2 female students and 1 in 4 male students have been sexually harassed to some degree by staff at Kenyan universities.
https://www.okayafrica.com/kenyan-students-launch-campus-me-to-movement/
Author(s): Russell Dalton
Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 1994, pp. 305
Examines development of Green movement in Western democracies. Argues that environmental interest groups are important new participants in the contemporary political process and that, if the movement is politically successful ‘it may at least partially reshape the style and structure of democratic processes in these countries’.
Author(s): Ruth Cherrington
Routledge, London, 1991, pp. 239
Author(s): Ruth Fletcher
In: Feminist Legal Studies, Vol 26, 2018, pp. 233-259
The author argues that feminism has been closely linked to reproductive rights, and Irish feminism contributed a significant ‘legal win’ with the landslide vote for lifting abortion restrictions in the 2018 referendum. This win is especially significant when right wing populist pressure is restricting women’s reproductive rights in many coutries. The movement #RepealedThe8th shows how legal tools like the vote can express care for reproductive lives. This paper ‘reflects on the #Repeal movement as a process of feminist socio-legal translation in order to show how legal change comes about through the motivation of collective joy, the mourning of damaged and lost lives, the sharing of legal knowledge, and the claiming of the rest of reproductive life.’
Author(s): Ruth Hayhurst
In: Drill or Drop, 2017
Reports on the campaign during the 2017 UK election by Frack Free United (a network of residents near fracking sites and campaign groups) and Cross Party Frack Free (group of MPs, Peers and parliamentary candidates, as well as local councillors, who support a national ban on fracking).