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Editor(s): Peter Weiss, Francis Boyle, Alfred P. Rubin, Burns H. Weston, Sean MacBride, Richard A. Falk, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Maurice Wilkins

Aletheia Press, Northampton, MA, 1991, pp. 145

The contributors provide an analysis of the illegality of nuclear weapons under international criminal law. 

Author(s): Alfred Stepan

In: Journal of Democracy, Vol 23, No 2 (April), 2012, pp. 89-103

Discusses transition to democracy and possibility of demonstrating how religion, society and the state can be satisfactorily balanced.

Author(s): Ali Gokpinar

In: OpenDemocracy.net, 2013

Available online at:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ali-gokpinar/neither-turkish-spring-nor-velvet-revolution

Author(s): Ali Tamlit

In: ROAR, 2016

Tamlit writes as one of the 13 activists, giving a brief account of the occupation of a runway at Heathrow using locks and chains, and of the trial where the defendants pleaded 'necessity' to prevent local harm and harm caused by climate change. He also provides a summary history of the development of a broad anti-aviation campaign from 2000 against, the creation of Plane Stupid in 2005 which became a direct action network, and the Climate Camp at Heathrow.

See also: Mortimer, Caroline, 'Plane Stupid Climate Change Activists Block Heathrow Runway in Protest at Airport Expansion', Independent, 13 July 2015, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heathrow-protest-live-plane-stupid-climate-change-activists-block-runway-in-protest-at-airport-10384280.html

Available online at:

https://roarmag.org/essays/heathrow-13-runway-occupation-climate-struggle/

Author(s): Alice Cook, and Gwyn Kirk

Pluto Press, London, 1983, pp. 127

Author(s): Staughton Lynd

Editor(s): Alice Lynd

Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY, 1995, pp. 530

Originally published: 1966

The 1966 anthology included writings by opponents of slavery, anarchists and ‘progressives’ in the 19th century, and trade unionists, conscientious objectors and peace campaigners in the 20th century, up to the Civil Rights Movement and anti-Vietnam War protests. The revised edition covers radical Catholic resistance, nonviolent trade unionism, resistance to US imperialism in Central America in the 1980s and assistance to Central American refugees, opposition to the 1991 Gulf War and environmental protests.

Author(s): Alicia Garza

Penguin/Random House, New York, 2020, pp. 336

One of the co-founders of the hashtag Black Lives Matter in 2013, Garza outlines in this book a long term strategy for social change.  It is based on her own years of experience in community organizing.  She has moved on from the Black Lives Matter organization (although still close to the other co-founders) to create the Black Futures Lab.  She has developed a policy platform (based on a major cross-party survey of Black people in the US in 2018) that focuses on central, widely supported demands. These include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, broadening opportunities for Black home ownership, and removing the police presence from schools that often leads to pupils being jailed.  She has campaigned in the 2020 US election on her agenda.  Her book also argues the need to abandon outdated models of individual leadership from the Civil Rights Movement, as well as cautioning against over-reliance on celebrity activists and the role of the internet.

See also: Mahdawi, Arwa, ‘Move Fast and Fix Things’, Guardian Weekly, 23 Oct. 2020, pp. 34-7.

An extended interview with Alicia Garza.

Author(s): Weyni Mengesha, Melanie Dreyer-Lude, Kristian Clarke, Kathryn Shaw, Jacqueline Warwick, Alisa Palmer, and Frédéric Dubois

In: Canadian Theatre Review, Vol 180, 2019

Theatre administrators, artistic directors, and heads of programmes from across Canada discuss about how institutional policies and cultures have shifted in the wake of #MeToo. The participants reflect on the challenges of assessing the impacts and effects of a cultural movement that is still unfolding and how #MeToo has changed the relationship between training institutions and the performing arts industry.

Editor(s): Alison E. Woodward, Jean-Michel Bonvin, and Merce Renom

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2011, pp. 308

Primarily examines role of women activists. Part I includes some historical studies from 18th and 19th centuries. But Part II covers period from 1970s -2000s in Netherlands and Poland and examines claims and projects of European movement. Part III examines how women’s movements have embraced global issues and role of minority groups within Europe.