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Corbet, Jessica, Indigenous-Led Action Outside White House Urges Biden to Protect People Not Polluters, , pp. smaller than 0

Reports on three-day demonstration spearheaded by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies.

Lee, Martha, Earth First! Environmental Apocalypse, Syracuse NJ, Syracuse University Press, 1995 , pp. 221

Study of the militant US movement founded in 1980, which split between what the author terms ‘millenarian’ and ‘apocalyptic’ wings, the former seeking to educate others and the latter trying to save biodiversity before it is too late.

Carter, April; Randle, Michael, Support Czechoslovakia, London, Housmans, 1968 , pp. 64

Account of four transnational teams going to Warsaw Pact capitals to protest against the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion.

Cervera-Marzal, Manuel, Désobeir En Démocratie:La Pénsee Désobeissante De Thoreau A Martin Luther King, Paris, Aux forges de Vulcain, 2013 , pp. 170

Largely based on the author’s PhD thesis, this book analyses three historical approaches to civil disobedience, from conservatives and liberal philosophies to the applied theory of disobedience derived from Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Center, Global, Egypt: Sexual Violence Against Women, Washington, DC, The Law Library of Congress, 2016 , pp. 22

Describes the main legislative instruments protecting women from sexual violence in Egypt, up to 2016. These are: the Egyptian Constitution of 2014 and the Criminal Code of 1937 and amendments to it. The report also discusses suggestions which have been made for improving the legal system.

Kohn, Laurie, #MeToo, Wrongs against Women, and Restorative Justice, XXVIII 2019 , pp. 561-586

Kohn discusses the allegations against high-profile perpetrators as a representative sample of the range of accusations raised generally by the #MeToo movement. She also analyzes the current responses available to redress these wrongs and then turns to the potential of restorative justice. This is conceived as a therapeutic form of dispute resolution that has enormous potential for eliciting the outcomes the #MeToo movement seek: true gender-equality, respect, and understanding.

Hussein, Eblisam, The 2019 Algerian Protests: A Belated Spring?, 25 4 2019 pp. smaller than 0

Hussein argues that although many aspects of Algerian politics combined to prevent a major uprising in 2011, subsequent developments such as Boutifleka's 2013 stroke and the constitutional amendment of 2016 (lifting again the two term limit on holding the presidency) heightened opposition to the regime by 2019.  The article starts by contrasting 'oil rich Algeria' with 'poor Algerians'.

, Voices from Tiananmen Square: Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement, ed. Mok, Chiu; Harrison, Frank, Montreal, Black Rose Books, 1990 , pp. 203

Collection of documents from participants in demonstrations.

Scott, Michael, A Time to Speak, London, Faber, 1959 , pp. 365

Autobiography of Anglican priest who took the case of the Herero people of South West Africa to the UN, opposing their incorporation into the Union of South Africa. Chapter 8 describes the Indian resistance to discriminatory legislation in 1946.

Review, Harvard, The Pakistani Lawyers’ Movement and the popular currency of judicial power, Notes 123 7 (May) 2010 , pp. 1705-1726

, Journeys of Fear: Refugee Return and National Transformation in Guatemala, ed. North, Liisa; Simmons, Alan, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 , pp. 352

Just as the massive exodus of Guatemalans, mainly indigenous people, in the early 1980s was externally the most visible symptom of the terror that had befallen the country, so their organized return put into focus the need for and hopes of a transformation affecting land, gender, identity, and rights. Also includes Barry Levitt ‘Theorizing Accompaniment’, pp. 237-54.

Levy, Jacques, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, New York, W.W. Norton, 1975 , pp. 546

Mandle, W., Going It Alone: Australia’s National Identity in the Twentieth Century, Ringwood VIC, Penguin, 1980

Chapter on ‘Donald Macleod and Australia’s Aboriginal Problem’, pp. 174-89 covers Pilbara strike and Pindan movement of late 1940s.

, Tackling Trident, ed. Vinthagen, Stellan; Kennick, Justin; Mason, Kelvin, Sparsnas Sweden, Irene Publishing, 2012 , pp. 362

On two ‘Academic Conference Blockades’ at Faslane Trident missile base in Scotland in January and June 2007.

Robinson, Lucy, Gay Men and the Left in Post-War Britain: How the Personal got Political, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011 , pp. 232

Deutsch, Richard, Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams, Foreword by Joan Baez Woodbury NY, Barrons, 1977 , pp. 204

Account of the genesis, development and programme of the Peace People by French journalist resident in Belfast at the time the movement began

Kosenko, Kami; Winderman, Emily; Pugh, Abigail, The Hijacked Hashtag: The Constitutive Features of Abortion Stigma in the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter Campaign, 13 2019 , pp. 1-21

Although originally intended to de-stigmatise abortion, the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter campaign was hijacked by anti-abortionists who linked the hashtag to hundreds of stigmatising anti-abortion messages. Using a Twitter Search API, the authors collected these messages (1,990 tweets) to identify the discursive features of abortion stigma.

Pavlidis, Adeele; O’Brian, Wendy, Sport and feminism in China: On the possibilities of conceiving roller derby as a feminist intervention, 53 3 2017 , pp. 704-719

The spread of contemporary roller derby presents an opportunity to examine the ways sport can act as a form of feminist intervention. This article draws on a qualitative case study of a roller derby league in China, made up predominantly of expatriate workers, to explore some of the possibilities roller derby presents in activating global forms of feminist participatory action.

Shilpa, Jindia, Belly of the Beast: California's dark history of forced sterilizations, , pp. smaller than 0

Filmed over seven years, Erika Cohn’s Belly of the Beast exposes state-sanctioned sterilizations in California prisons through the story of Kelli Dillon, who was forcibly sterilized while incarcerated at the Central California women’s facility in Chowchilla, and her lawyer Cynthia Chandler.

Sopranzetti, Claudio, Thailand's Relapse: the Implications of the May 2014 Coup, 75 2 2016 , pp. 299-316

The author notes that at first the May 2014 coup looked like a re-run of earlier coups which resulted in short term military rule and an interim government, but the strength of repression and reorganization of  power soon indicated a more major shift  towards permanent authoritarianism based on new class alliances.  He explores how this new phase has its roots in the earlier development of Thai politics in the 20th century.

Overy, Bob, Gandhi as a political organiser, In Michael Randle, Challenge to Nonviolence (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Bradford, University of Bradford, 2002 , pp. 132-162

A chapter from Overy’s unpublished PhD thesis.

Syrop, Konrad, Spring in October: The Story of the Polish Revolution 1956, London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1957 , pp. 219

, Protests in Belgrade: Winter of Discontent, ed. Lazić, Mladen, Budapest and New York, Central European University Press, 1999 , pp. 242

Based on interviews with more than 1,000 participants in the 1996-97 protests.

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