Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution

Author(s): David Carter

St Martins Press, New York, 2010, pp. 352

Originally published: 2004

Detailed account of protests that erupted on 28 June 1969 when New York police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village (popular among gays), when many others joined in, and demonstrations spread across the city for several days. The ‘riots’ led to the founding of the Gay Liberation Front and the first Gay Pride marches in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco a year later.

Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-emerging from Invisibility

Editor(s): David Chiavacci, and Julia Obinger

Routledge, Oxon and New York, 2018, pp. 212

This book explores social movements and forms of political activism in contemporary Japan, arguing that the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident led to a resurgence in social and protest movements and inaugurated a new era of civic engagement. Re-examines older and recent forms of activism in Japan, as well as provides studies of specific movements that developed after Fukushima. The book considers structural challenges that activists face in contemporary Japan, and how the newly developing movements have been shaped by the neo-conservative policies of the Japanese government. The authors also considers how the Japanese experience adds to our understanding of how social movements work, and whether it might challenge prevailing theoretical frameworks.

Brazil: Thousands of women rally against far-right Bolsonaro

Author(s): David Child, and Joao Pedro Soares

In: Al Jazeera, 2018

Describes the #EleNao (‘Not Him’) demonstrations led by women in Brazil against sexist statements made by President Jair Bolsonaro, sparked by his remark to 63-year-old  fellow congresswomen, Maria do Rosario: "I would never rape you because you do not deserve it". These remonstrations have been connected also to the lack of political representation of women within the Brazilian Parliament. Despite making up 52 percent of Brazil's electorate, women hold just 13 of 81 seats in the country's upper house senate.  Fewer than 11 percent of the 513 seats in the lower house Chamber of Deputies are held by women.

See also https://thetempest.co/2019/01/18/news/meet-the-powerhouse-women-leading-brazils-new-era-of-feminist-activism/

Available online at:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/brazil-thousands-women-rally-bolsonaro-180929231001428.html

Christian Peacemaker Teams

Author(s): David Cockburn

2006

Abstract

Describes how the Christian Peacemaker Teams function, the roles they play and their impact - especially in Hebron. One 'ppt' presentation and four images

Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies

Author(s): David Cortright, and Max Watts

Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1991, pp. 296

The chapter ‘The Philippines: another Portugal?’, pp. 220-28, challenges the view that the Reformed Armed Forces Movement was ever a revolutionary movement, concluding ‘The primary thrust for the overthrow of Marcos and the installation of Cory Aquino came from the people themselves, notably the church and the middle classes’.

Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas

Author(s): David Cortright

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 378

Chapters 7 and 8 cover anti-nuclear weapon campaigns, opposition to Vietnam and Iraq wars, resistance in the military and also draft resistance and conscientious objection.

Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for the Age of Terrorism

Author(s): David Cortright

Paradigm Publishers, Boulder CO, 2006, pp. 265

Offers a contemporary analysis of Gandhi, while tracing how subsequent US figures and campaigns have applied and enhanced an understanding of ‘applied nonviolence’ that is an effective methodology rooted in values, including feminist values.

Common Ground: The Story Of Greenham

Author(s): David Fairhall

I.B. Tauris , London, 2006, pp. 224

Story of the march to Greenham Common in August 1981 by a small group of women, ‘Women for Life on Earth’, to demand a public debate on nuclear weapons, in order to keep the nuclear issue under scrutiny, and how it led to the prolonged and renowned women-only camp and blockades at the Greenham Cruise Missile Base in the UK.

See also https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/03/greenham.yourgreenham3

How To Survive A Plague: The Story Of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

Author(s): David France

Random House , London, 2016, pp. 640

Well reviewed inside account of the succesfull battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, this is the incredible story of grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a mangeable disease. France gives account of bureaucratic incompetence and political cowardice in a country where in 1982, 42.6 percent of gay men in San Francisco and 26.8 gay men in New York were infected by AIDS. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchres, lobbysts, and drug smugglers; established their own newspapaers and research journals, and went on to force reform in the nation's disease fighting agencies. 

Direct Action: An Ethnography

Author(s): David Graeber

A.K. Press, Edinburgh and Oakland CA, 2009, pp. 592

Participant observation study of Global Justice Movement, centred on case study of Summit of the Americas in Quebec City 2001.

The Making of a Quagmire

(revised edition)

Author(s): David Halberstam

Rowman and Littlefield, London, 2007, pp. 248

Originally published: 1965

Includes helpful information on the Buddhist resistance in 1963, see especially pp. 194-243 in original edition.

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