Best human rights law books according to redditors
We found 185 Reddit comments discussing the best human rights law books. We ranked the 82 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 185 Reddit comments discussing the best human rights law books. We ranked the 82 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
There's also a book - "I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced." It's a hard read, but eye opening. Almost as good as Kristof's "Half the sky." Almost.
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Nujood-Age-10-Divorced/dp/0307589676
http://www.amazon.com/Half-Sky-Oppression-Opportunity-Worldwide/dp/0307387097
Yes. It's a real disaster. Pick up a copy of Ezra Levant's Shakedown. This otherwise pompous right-wing blowhard looks like a saint when he runs up against the Human Rights Tribunals' thought police.
Nicolas Kristof's book Half the Sky deals with this. He spoke at my high school about how, if you count all these instances of gender-fueled violence as a single entity, it's the largest loss of human life in history. I'm paraphrasing, because that doesn't sound quite right, but it was something along those lines.
MacKinnon recently asked a similar question:
More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a matter of course and without effective recourse?
(Conclusion: MacKinnon says 'Yes', patriarchy says 'No'. MacKinnon and patriarchy in irreconcilable difference of views, round #4,761. :P)
I have a few you might be interested in:
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
The footnotes to Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Foundation by Isaac Asimov This book will bring up many interesting discussions on power systems, for a discussion group I would recommend just reading the first book in the series and discussing the themes.
The Mexican Revolution by Alan Knight
Dreams of Freedom : A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
Fragments of Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
[Zapatista Reader] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Zapatista-Reader-Nation-Books/dp/1560253355)
Our Word is Our Weapon
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Government is Violence by Leo Tolstoy
That's as much as I can remember, but my recommendations are bias towards my interests.
The piece explains the objective facts that 30% of of people who identify as "transgender" also report "fair to poor" health. 65% also report severe mental illness. The article then blames society without accepting any other explanation.
They attribute this to mockery being "hard." Not that sex change regret is getting worse and they simply won't acknowledge it. Nowhere is it confirmed that "gender affirmative surgery" improves quality of life. The book When Harry Became Sally is a series of accounts taken from an older doctor at Johns Hopkins. He resisted GRS as conforming to body dysmorphia until the Obama administration said his staff had to perform GRS or face Justice Department action. He argues in the book that reassignment does not improve quality of life, but the opposite. And to hang it all on mockery is intellectually dishonest.
I'm so tired of this shit with Charlize Therone and these isolationist aristocrat pieces of shit trying to make the whole population as crazy and fucked up as they are. Please just go back to whatever crazy inverted asshole dimension you came from. This Baphumet shit is just so old and annoying now.
A sad little isolated world one faithful reader must live in.
From UK Perspective:
Peter Lloyd (7 July 2016).
Stand By Your Manhood: An Essential Guide for Modern Men.
Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84954-852-6. - Kindle
Dan Bell; Glen Poole (28 September 2015).
insideMAN: Pioneering stories about Men And Boys
Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78462-533-7. 9Electronic Purchase(http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=3553)
Neil Lyndon (1992).
No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism .
Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 978-1-85619-191-3. (Buy Second hand)
Neil Lyndon (2015)
Sexual Impolitics: Heresies on sex, gender and feminism,
See Kindle Unlimited
Glen Poole (2013),
[Equality For Men],
On a More Global Perspective
Paul Nathanson; Katherine K. Young (16 October 2001).
Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture.
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-6969-0.
Paul Nathanson; Katherine K. Young (21 March 2006).
Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men.
MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-7789-3.
Katherine K. Young; Paul Nathanson (2010).
Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man.
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-3615-9.
Paul Nathanson; Katherine K. Young (1 June 2015).
Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History of Men.
MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-8380-1.
Wendy McElroy (2015),
Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women,
CreateSpace Independent Publishing, ISBN 978-1533629401
John Davis BA JD LLM,
Rape Hysteria: Lying with Rape Statistics (Foundations of Modern Feminism),
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
No I don't, bootlicker. And I'll tell you why
The prison industrial complex has been the topic of music for decades. It's been in documentaries, and television and books and more books and scandals and more scandals and if you think all this shouting is new then know we're translating it back into jukebox and old lady's language, because at the end of the day we all know. We bullshit or we ignore it or we bullshit again as we hang on to our "I voted" stickers and tell us that if we all just stay calm and debate it out then next year it'll be different, year after year, literal decade after decade.
But one day the ghetto next door will run out of little black boys. You'll watch as a neighbor gets snatched, as well meaning college kids get beat by those protecting "law and order," and maybe someone you know gets hashtagged, and finally you understand that it's "civility" itself thats the problem. And when you're there we'll be there with you, at your side, making sure the bootlickers who stood by and let the happen don't get to plug their ears on us.
Say what you will about Ezra Levant, he is a dedicated fighter for the freedom of speech in the country. He potentially is risking his life for it. And it's cost him a ton of money. He wrote a book about that Human Rights Tribunal called Shake Down ( check it out from [amazon] (http://www.amazon.ca/Shakedown-Government-Undermining-Democracy-Rights/dp/0771046197/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1420732318&sr=8-2&keywords=ezra+levant).
I might not agree with everything he says, but he is smart and entertaining.
As much as I loathe his politics, Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is well worth the read. Most of the cases he references have their records available online so you can wade through the mud yourself, but the book does a good job of collecting a lot of troubling material in one place, if you can stomach a little bit of self-aggrandizement.
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men
Recommended read for men by Feminist Current
Coercive Engineered Migration - someone wrote a book about it! We ARE being invaded and unless we close the borders we'll be fucked!
https://www.amazon.ca/Weapons-Mass-Migration-Displacement-Coercion/dp/0801448719
This kind of thing is not new at all. You should read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Migration-Displacement-Coercion/dp/0801448719
I am a rising 3L. It would have been helpful if you gave a bit more information about why in the world you're considering becoming a lawyer. Since you didn't, I'm just going to give you a huge list of links to materials which have informed my general philosophical understanding of law, justice, and the legal profession and hope you find some of it interesting.
Music:
Dead Prez - Fuck the Law
Crass - Bloody Revolution
GG Allin - Fuck Authority
Wesley Willis - It’s Against the Law
Wilco - Against the Law
Golf Wang - Earl
MellowHype - Fuck the Police
KottonMouth Kings and ICP - Fuck the Police
RATM - Fuck the Police
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
Choking Victim - Money
Anti-Flag - No Borders, No Nations
Utah Phillips - I Will Not Obey
Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ
Todos Tus Muertos - Gente Que No
David Wrench - A Radical Song
Books:
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish(PDF Link)
[Thomas Geoghegan - The Law in Shambles](http://www.amazon.com/Law-Shambles-Thomas-
Geoghegan/dp/097281969X)
Rawn James Jr. - Root and Branch
Deborah Rhode - In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession
Alan Dershowitz - Letters to a Young Lawyer
Richard Posner - Overcoming Law (specifically read "The Material Basis of Jurisprudence")
Susan Eaton - The Children in Room E4
Sunny Schwartz - Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All
Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Alan Dershowitz - The Best Defense
John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
Robert Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia
Ward Churchill - Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-American Laws
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich - Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens
Film:
Judgment at Nuremberg
A Civil Action
To Kill a Mockingbird
>I don’t regret having one, just extremely ashamed of being sexual and communicating it to girls and also showing it to the world. Attracting girls’ attention and whatnot isn’t very hard but progressing things to dating, holding hands and eventually sex is impossible. I can’t even call them or message them on Facebook or Whatsapp because I just feel like an idiot for doing so. Making a move in clubs and bars is also difficult although I once got close to leaving with a girl but she didn't want to. I got made fun of a lot growing up for not having a girlfriend and this made me feel like i do not deserve one. It doesn't matter if I've got the green light to go ahead I just feel really ashamed do it. Even something like looking at a fit girl wearing a short skirt makes me feel bad for checking her out and that I shouldn’t be doing it.
I know what you mean. I've been there myself, but even when I was there I was entirely self-aware of my shame and I was skeptical of the validity of my emotional reactions; I realized they were ingrained. Being aware of your emotional reactions allows you to be emotionally proactive. Your sex-negative problem is mostly an emotional issue, and not much else, right? I've been there. I wouldn't doubt that you are also decent looking and have both latent and actualized social skills. Most intelligent introverts have a lot of potential to be who they want to be because they know themselves more deeply than others. You must use your introverted nature to your advantage and recognize the differences in others and yourself. In all honesty, there are an infinite number of unwritten rules; everyone's abstract/emotional logic is different. Many of them are foundational and predictable, however; including yours and mine. Like anything else, being emotionally predictable is not a black/white issue. It is a grey area, and you have to balance your reliability with creativity.
Being made fun of for not having a girlfriend is just as sexist as being made fun of for not having a boyfriend; gender equal too. Were you ever shamed for not having a boyfriend? It's clearly a matter of groupthink and extroverted style; not for everyone. Dating relationships, for extroverts especially, are often attention-getting and showy. They wear their relationships like trophies won. Usually introverts prefer a more private relationship because they have less social desire and are often shamed because of it. Introverts are “themselves” more often in private. Extroverts are “themselves” more often in public. There is no shame deserved either way, regardless of popular opinion. Both styles have their strengths and weaknesses, and you should try to introject some of the traits that you enjoy in others; regardless of type. That is how you become balanced.
>I’m receiving counselling from a pastor who advocates the whole “no sex before marriage” thing and believes that people should only date to get married and sex is only for making kids which is stupid IMO because I do not plan on getting married anytime soon.
Counseling from a Catholic pastor? Watch out, that is one of the most notorious sex-negative societies out there. They own the abstinence-only charade while they parade horribles. Marriage is not the answer to anything; it is an institution of the state. Anything else attached is sentimental.
If you haven't already, I recommend doing an in-depth study of animal sexual behaviors; especially the most intelligent animals. All animals have sex for pleasure, but some animals are only driven to have sex at certain times of the year; humans are on a 24/7 system.
>I’ve tried the no fap route and gotten very high days counts but that hasn’t really helped me at all.
Sexual frustration doesn't help anyone. If you are mindful, then you can use your libido to further your goals, but it is not an all-cure.
>Got any sources to help overcome sex-negative perspectives? I’m interested in recreational sex not baby making sex.
Absolutely. I recommend starting with actual sex science and learning about male and female psychology and neurology. Then work your way into reading about sex culture. You should also study developmental psychology as you will probably need the clinical context in order to objectively self-evaluate your childhood influences; it is necessary for self-therapy. The best therapy will always be self-therapy; no one will ever know you better than yourself.
Evolutionary Science and Morals Philosophy:
The Selfish Gene
The Moral Landscape
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?
Sex Psychology, Science, and Neurology:
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Female Brain
The Male Brain
Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
What Do Women Want
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
Sex: The world's favorite pastime fully revealed
Behavioral Psychology and Abstract Economics:
How Pleasure Works
Freakonomics
Quiet: The Power of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking
Thinking Fast And Slow
We Are All Weird
Developmental Psychology:
Nurture Shock
Hauntings: Dispelling The Ghosts That Run Our Lives
Empathy Building:
Half The Sky
The House On Mango Street
Me Before You
The Fault In Our Stars
Also check out James Hollis' Understanding The Psychology of Men lecture if you can find it.
Movies: XXY, Tom Boy, Dogtooth, Shame, Secretary, Nymphomaniac, Juno, Beautiful Creatures, and The Man From Earth.
All of these things are related, but it is up to you to make the connections; pick and choose which material suits your interests best. These are the things that came to mind first, and they have all influenced my perspectives.
would you like to know more?
TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4
Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6249748
1989 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OJPeHCmhA
1989 #2 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-k-tfiPfs
1989 story about Bush Sr. Whitehouse call Boy sex ring
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/02/06/15709461.php
Nixon Tape Discusses Homosexuals at Bohemian Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPb-PN9F2Pc
Charges refiled against former Pittsburgh cop accused of running prostitution ring
http://triblive.com/news/2222380-74/johns-police-criminal-charges-pittsburgh-prostitution-allegheny-charged-counts-county#axzz2Qc0wAaBg
Former TSA employee fined $500 for running prostitution ring
Man confronted by police in Silver Spring hotel in February
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120611/NEWS/706119952/1007/former-tsa-employee-fined-500-for-running-prostitution-ring&template=gazette
School board member convicted of running prostitution ring in California
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904911-school-board-member-convicted-of-running-prostitution-ring-in-california?lite
FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/146xzt/fbi_dads_spyware_experiment_accidentally_exposes/
The Franklin Cover-Up - John DeCamp - Full film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWrrBceuP4
The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366098964&sr=8-1&keywords=franklin+coverup
Pentagon Child Porn Scandal: Security Agencies Were Left At Risk, Investigators Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/pentagon-child-porn-scand_n_656839.html
Secret Service Prostitution Scandal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/secret-service-prostitution-scandal
A Party under Fire: A Scandal-Scarred GOP Asks, ‘What Next?’
Explicit e-mails with under-age male pages. Criminal lobbyists. Being on client lists for prostitution rings. FBI corruption investigations. And, now, soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. People are beginning to wonder: how low can Republican lawmakers go?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/a-party-under-fire-a-scandal-scarred-gop-asks-what-next-a-502653.html
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html
The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-11/opinions/36798466_1_deborah-jeane-palfrey-prosecutors-shock-and-awe
Mike Horner Prostitution Scandal: GOP State Rep. Resigns After Name Reportedly Surfaces On Client List
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/mike-horner-sex-prostitution-scandal_n_1910647.html
Another One: Top Federal Judge Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4452917&page=1#.UW0JY0pcnn4
‘Comfort Women’ Controversy Comes to New York
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/comfort-women-controversy-comes-to-new-york/
Sex scandal rocks Vatican: Papal usher, chorister linked to gay prostitution ring
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-scandal-rocks-vatican-papal-usher-chorister-linked-gay-prostitution-ring-article-1.172149
BBC News - Catholic Church loses child abuse liability appeal
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/wfq5e/bbc_news_catholic_church_loses_child_abuse/
Ireland admits involvement in Catholic laundry slavery
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57567706/ireland-admits-involvement-in-catholic-laundry-slavery/
Cover-up claims revive sex scandal
Belgian establishment accused of closing ranks to block investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/21/stephenbates
Belgium Pedophilia Scandal /Did Authorities Cover Up Its Scope?: Book Revives Fear of Grand Conspiracy
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/16/news/16iht-brussels.2.t.html?pagewanted=all
Portugal's elite linked to paedophile ring
Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/27/childprotection.uk
FBI Ran Pedophile Ring to Nab Pedophiles
As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks "while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to a Seattle FBI agent's statements to the court."
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/05/30/FBI-Ran-Pedophile-Ring-to-Nab-Pedophiles
Sure thing! Here is a shortlist of some of my favourite books (or in the case of Hope In The Dark, highly recommended books from trusted sources).
This Is An Uprising - Mark & Paul Engler
I think this is probably the best entry point. It starts off by challenging the popular notion that social uprisings are spontaneous and unpredictable but the results of years of work. Then they explore what that kind of work looks like, using some historic examples to distil a few of the key concepts. It’s a really accessible book and if you want to believe that revolutionary, transformational change is possible in our times this book is for you.
This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein
I think one of the most insightful books on the politics of climate change ever written. If you wonder why climate change got so politicised and why the right works so hard to deny the science, this book will explain what’s at stake for the rich and powerful and why we simply can not treat climate change as any other issue, but something that cuts to the core of political conflict. It is extremely well researched and detailed but very well written so easy enough to read.
Out Of The Wreckage - George Monbiot
This is probably the most contemporary book in this list. Published just last year and really rooted in the politics of this moment. It attempts to offer a bit of a road map for solving the political, ecological and economic crises we find ourselves in. It’s at its strongest when talking about the narratives and stories we need to tell about ourselves, it gets a bit weaker as it attempts to dive deep into solving democracy. But it still offers a lot of food for thought and big doses of hope.
Rules For Revolutionaries - Becky Bond & Zack Exley
I just love this book. It was written by two of the lead organisers on the Bernie Sanders campaign about how they built a huge voter contact machine that broke all the rules of political organising. While This Is An Uprising covers some of the bigger concepts, this gets into the details of how organising at scale works in practice. Definitely pitched at people who do this sort of work in some capacity, I think it’s one of those behind the curtain books that most people will find interesting.
Hegemony How To - Jonathan Matthew Smucker
This one goes a bit more into the details of organising radical groups and campaigns. An amazing book that lays out a loving critique of what some of the left has been getting wrong, and builds on what it can do better. I love it. But not a book I’d really recommend for people who aren’t involved in that world yet because it really does go into details that probably aren’t useful unless you are a real geek about this stuff.
Hope In The Dark - Rebecca Solnit
For a lot of people I know, this book is a bit of a sacred text. And I have to be honest, that I haven’t read it yet. But almost everyone I know in the US re-read it after Trump was elected. The main message of this book is that social change is unpredictable and the future is uncertain. From that uncertainty we can, and must draw hope. The future is not decided and we have the capacity to influence it in ways we don’t always understand. While we may experience some campaigns and protests as failures, the history of social change is far from linear. We will experience twists and turns on the path to victory. We need hope to keep pushing, and we need to keep pushing because each failure brings us closer to success. Just not always in the way we expect. If you don’t have time for the whole book, or just want a taste. This is a great article she wrote a few years ago exploring the same basic themes.
Emergent Strategy - adrienne maree brown
This one is more inwardly focused. Connecting personal experience with political struggle. It teaches us to let go of the status quo and embrace change. Fear of the unknown sometimes holds back our ability to imagine a better future or let go of control.
Reminds me of "Half The Sky"
The idea of people losing privileges, being removed from the world permanently, etc. is a relatively recent idea. We should meet it with skepticism. I'm certainly not the first to propose this, and prison-default thinking is outdated.
I would have to read it to make a proper comment. But that conclusion seems...not right. Incidentally, Kelly Greenhill (of Tufts) wrote a very well-regarded book on how countries use the threat of forced migration/displacement as a tool of coercion, so not a million miles from your idea: https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Migration-Displacement-Coercion-ebook/dp/B0057P69P8
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis. Good place to get a start and to get a great source.
Can't go wrong with Foucoult either.
Prison "reform" is an oxymoron. This article doesn't describe ANY of the measures Webb will supposedly introduce. The point is that modern prisons have served an important purpose since the 1960s --- when economic crises and lobbying forced the government to drastically reduce/abandon corporate taxation, there was no longer a tax base for Great Society and New Deal programs used to support/co-opt marginalized impoverished groups like minority single mothers. Historically, however, these groups are prone to cause problems and revolt, and this also became an issue in the 1960s (the Watts riots were the first BLACK-instigated race riot). So what does the United States do with its surplus humans? This increasingly becomes a problem as globalization forces jobs oversees and creates more people with no place in US society? Solution: Lock em up --- you can even boost local economies with prison-building contracts and by hiring guards and other contractors. Two birds with one stone! The US will never seriously tackle the prison issue. I believe in prison abolitionism --- incarceration has NOT always been the way society has dealt with marginalized groups and 'criminals'... Prison abolitionism is about finding alternatives (better education, [mental] healthcare, decriminalization of drugs) to vastly reduce the number of incarcerated and actually challenge the government and corporate interests that make up what many call the contemporary 'prison industrial complex.'
For a great summary of the critique of the contemporary US prison system and an outline of prison abolitionism, check out Angela Davis' 100-page "Are Prisons Obsolete?"
http://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Angela-Davis/dp/1583225811/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230610533&sr=8-1
Here is another book to add to your reading list:
http://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fascism-Face-Power-America/dp/0896081494
Many of Gross' predictions were stunningly accurate and I feel we have arrived at many.
Ich lass mal diesen Literaturtipp hier....
I think the book Half the Sky and then the subsequent documentaries are what really brought the issue to the forefront of serious women's issues that need to be addressed. Because it's essentially been eliminated in America, not to mention the obvious taboo of talking openly about vaginal tearing and leaking feces through the vagina, it's an issue that a majority of people are completely unfamiliar with. I've even seen several TIL's about it in terms of how gross it is and the comments on the posts would belong in /r/imgoingtohellforthis if they had any idea just how deadly, miserable, and prevalent this condition really is.
Louis CK also donated profits from his self-funded album to the Fistula Foundation, bringing even more awareness.
tl;dr: They're the Bad Guys.
Still just scratching the surface...:
EXCLUSIVE: Secret service infiltrated paedophile group to 'blackmail establishment'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/485529/Special-Branch-funded-Paedophile-Information-Exchange-says-Home-Office-whistleblower[1]
'More than 10' politicians on list held by police investigating Westminster 'paedophile ring'
Whistleblower who prompted Operation Fernbridge says up to 40 MPs and peers knew about or took part in child abuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10947561/More-than-10-politicians-on-list-held-by-police-investigating-Westminster-paedophile-ring.html[2]
Nearly everyone on UK paedophile ring list is a Freemason says abuse victim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m-5BUNXfNU[3]
Margaret Thatcher 'personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers: The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: “You have to clean up your sexual act”
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2akwze/margaret_thatcher_personally_covered_up_child/[4]
Children's homes were 'supply line' for paedophiles, says ex-minister
Lord Warner says an inquiry he conducted in 1992 showed how children's homes were targeted by powerful people
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/08/children-homes-supply-line-paedophiles-lord-warner[5]
Westminster paedophile ring allegations: timeline
Here are the key events in the claims around an alleged VIP paedophile ring in Westminster
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10950127/Westminster-paedophile-ring-allegations-timeline.html[6]
Canadian Sex Worker kicked out of Senate hearings on controversial prostitution law after threatening to reveal list of Canadian federal politicians who use prostitution.
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2g3ch2/canadian_sex_worker_kicked_out_of_senate_hearings/[7]
Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed documents showing child abuse allegations, court told in cover-up case
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/29f9wp/jehovahs_witnesses_destroyed_documents_showing/[8]
Salvation Army 'rented out' boys at Sydney children’s home in Sydney to paedophiles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10606458/Salvation-Army-rented-out-boys-at-Sydney-childrens-home-in-Sydney-to-paedophiles.html[9]
TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/[10]
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html[11]
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4[12]
Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6249748[13]
1989 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OJPeHCmhA[14]
1989 #2 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-k-tfiPfs[15]
1989 story about Bush Sr. Whitehouse call Boy sex ring
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/02/06/15709461.php[16]
Nixon Tape Discusses Homosexuals at Bohemian Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPb-PN9F2Pc[17]
Charges refiled against former Pittsburgh cop accused of running prostitution ring
http://triblive.com/news/2222380-74/johns-police-criminal-charges-pittsburgh-prostitution-allegheny-charged-counts-county#axzz2Qc0wAaBg[18]
Former TSA employee fined $500 for running prostitution ring
Man confronted by police in Silver Spring hotel in February
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120611/NEWS/706119952/1007/former-tsa-employee-fined-500-for-running-prostitution-ring&template=gazette[19]
School board member convicted of running prostitution ring in California
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904911-school-board-member-convicted-of-running-prostitution-ring-in-california?lite[20]
FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/146xzt/fbi_dads_spyware_experiment_accidentally_exposes/[21]
The Franklin Cover-Up - John DeCamp - Full film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWrrBceuP4[22]
The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366098964&sr=8-1&keywords=franklin+coverup[23]
Pentagon Child Porn Scandal: Security Agencies Were Left At Risk, Investigators Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/pentagon-child-porn-scand_n_656839.html[24]
Secret Service Prostitution Scandal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/secret-service-prostitution-scandal[25]
A Party under Fire: A Scandal-Scarred GOP Asks, ‘What Next?’
Explicit e-mails with under-age male pages. Criminal lobbyists. Being on client lists for prostitution rings. FBI corruption investigations. And, now, soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. People are beginning to wonder: how low can Republican lawmakers go?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/a-party-under-fire-a-scandal-scarred-gop-asks-what-next-a-502653.html[26]
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html[27]
The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-11/opinions/36798466_1_deborah-jeane-palfrey-prosecutors-shock-and-awe[28]
Mike Horner Prostitution Scandal: GOP State Rep. Resigns After Name Reportedly Surfaces On Client List
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/mike-horner-sex-prostitution-scandal_n_1910647.html[29]
Another One: Top Federal Judge Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4452917&page=1#.UW0JY0pcnn4[30]
‘Comfort Women’ Controversy Comes to New York
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/comfort-women-controversy-comes-to-new-york/[31]
Pope Francis: 'About 2%' of Catholic clergy paedophiles
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28282050[32]
Pope begs forgiveness for 'sacrilegious cult' of Church sexual abuse
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/07/us-pope-abuse-idUSKBN0FC15J20140707[33]
Vatican arrests former archbishop on paedophilia charges
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/us-vaitican-abuse-arrest-idUSKCN0HI28T20140923[34]
Sex scandal rocks Vatican: Papal usher, chorister linked to gay prostitution ring
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-scandal-rocks-vatican-papal-usher-chorister-linked-gay-prostitution-ring-article-1.172149[35]
BBC News - Catholic Church loses child abuse liability appeal
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/wfq5e/bbc_news_catholic_church_loses_child_abuse/[36]
Ireland admits involvement in Catholic laundry slavery
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57567706/ireland-admits-involvement-in-catholic-laundry-slavery/[37]
Cover-up claims revive sex scandal
Belgian establishment accused of closing ranks to block investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/21/stephenbates[38]
Belgium Pedophilia Scandal /Did Authorities Cover Up Its Scope?: Book Revives Fear of Grand Conspiracy
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/16/news/16iht-brussels.2.t.html?pagewanted=all[39]
Portugal's elite linked to paedophile ring
Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/27/childprotection.uk[40]
FBI Ran Pedophile Ring to Nab Pedophiles
As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks "while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to a Seattle FBI agent's statements to the court."
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/05/30/FBI-Ran-Pedophile-Ring-to-Nab-Pedophiles[41]
Boy Scouts helped alleged molesters cover tracks, files show
When volunteers and employees were suspected of sexually abusing children, Boy Scout officials often didn't tell police, files from 1970-91 reveal. In many cases they sought to hide the situation.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-boy-scouts-files-20120916,0,1641796.story#axzz2xIsUM5rH[42]
Child Sex Case Adds Outrage To Scandals Rocking Belgium
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-10-27/news/9610270253_1_marc-dutroux-minister-willy-claes-jean-marc-connerotte[43]
Theme park employees caught in child porn arrests
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/14/us/theme-park-employees-child-sex-stings/[44]
Former acting HHS cybersecurity director convicted on child porn charges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/26/former-acting-hhs-cybersecurity-director-convicted-on-child-porn-charges/[45]
Hundreds held over Canada child porn
Police in Canada say 348 people have been arrested and nearly 400 children rescued during a three-year investigation into child pornography.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24944358[46]
Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Arrested on Child Porn Charges
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Deputy-City-Attorney-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-the-City-Attorneys-Office-said-274174791.html
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Illegal-Libya-Cynthia-McKinney/dp/098527106X
A fantastic account of the NATO/al Qaeda alliance in Libya written by US congresswoman Cynthia Mickinney.
Maybe Gene Sharp will be useful for some of the information: From Dictatorship to Democracy / Power and Struggle / Blueprint for Revolution
Have a read of the book Sexual Impolitics (was No More Sex War) and look at the old Oprah episodes with him on...
Sexual Impolitics - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sexual-Impolitics-Heresies-gender-feminism-ebook/dp/B00PBA6ZRQ
Warren Farrell on Oprah - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oprah+warren+farrell - from 1991 or thereabouts.
Myth of Male Power was released in 1993 - Farrell was booted out of NOW in the 70s...
You could write a book on the subject.
Here's one I consider good.
https://www.amazon.com/Antisemitism-Here-Deborah-Lipstadt/dp/0805243372
see also: Are Women Human? by Catharine MacKinnon (2006)
and Are Women People? by Alice Duer Miller (1915)
Recommended reading: Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross.
One theory is that we should get rid of prisons altogether.
http://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Angela-Davis/dp/1583225811
My opinion is that improvements to the prison system will come from improvements to our legal system. End the drug war and reduce sentencing for non-violent, non-fraudulent offenses. When there are fewer prisoners, our penitentiaries will be better off.
Also, in terms of policy, disenfranchising those who serve time only ensures that the people who experience prison will not be able to give feedback on it. Everyone deserves the right to vote, no matter what they've done.
Secondly, prisons should not be run by private companies. Imprisoning people should not be profitable. If the state wants to enact policies that require the imprisonment of its citizens, then it should be prepared to handle the cost of doling out that punishment. Then maybe laws would more accurately reflect the reasonableness of sentences to their crimes.
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men by Robert Jensen.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Patriarchy-Radical-Feminism-Men/dp/1742199925
OK. I found a good one.
Angela Davis wrote a really interesting book on this Are Prisons Obsolete. Lots of discussion punishment vs. rehab and how the current system came about essentially to continue to oppress people and ignore the social systems that cause crime.
Her autobiography on how she was on the run from the FBI for her connection to the killing of a judge and her prison experience is also a really good read.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
You should read a bit Mao, he does in fact call the same things out and argues that it is important to act in unity, but keep talking and educating people. There is lots of effective stuff in his books about leadership. That said, be aware that his advise on safeguards against power aren't working.
Besides that I'd suggest Thinking about the Fundamentals - Helvey and Rules for Revolutionaries - How Organizing can change everything.
would you like to know more?
TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4
Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6249748
1989 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OJPeHCmhA
1989 #2 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-k-tfiPfs
1989 story about Bush Sr. Whitehouse call Boy sex ring
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/02/06/15709461.php
Nixon Tape Discusses Homosexuals at Bohemian Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPb-PN9F2Pc
Charges refiled against former Pittsburgh cop accused of running prostitution ring
http://triblive.com/news/2222380-74/johns-police-criminal-charges-pittsburgh-prostitution-allegheny-charged-counts-county#axzz2Qc0wAaBg
Former TSA employee fined $500 for running prostitution ring
Man confronted by police in Silver Spring hotel in February
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120611/NEWS/706119952/1007/former-tsa-employee-fined-500-for-running-prostitution-ring&template=gazette
School board member convicted of running prostitution ring in California
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904911-school-board-member-convicted-of-running-prostitution-ring-in-california?lite
FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/146xzt/fbi_dads_spyware_experiment_accidentally_exposes/
The Franklin Cover-Up - John DeCamp - Full film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWrrBceuP4
The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366098964&sr=8-1&keywords=franklin+coverup
Pentagon Child Porn Scandal: Security Agencies Were Left At Risk, Investigators Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/pentagon-child-porn-scand_n_656839.html
Secret Service Prostitution Scandal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/secret-service-prostitution-scandal
A Party under Fire: A Scandal-Scarred GOP Asks, ‘What Next?’
Explicit e-mails with under-age male pages. Criminal lobbyists. Being on client lists for prostitution rings. FBI corruption investigations. And, now, soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. People are beginning to wonder: how low can Republican lawmakers go?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/a-party-under-fire-a-scandal-scarred-gop-asks-what-next-a-502653.html
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html
The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-11/opinions/36798466_1_deborah-jeane-palfrey-prosecutors-shock-and-awe
Mike Horner Prostitution Scandal: GOP State Rep. Resigns After Name Reportedly Surfaces On Client List
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/mike-horner-sex-prostitution-scandal_n_1910647.html
Another One: Top Federal Judge Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4452917&page=1#.UW0JY0pcnn4
‘Comfort Women’ Controversy Comes to New York
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/comfort-women-controversy-comes-to-new-york/
Sex scandal rocks Vatican: Papal usher, chorister linked to gay prostitution ring
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-scandal-rocks-vatican-papal-usher-chorister-linked-gay-prostitution-ring-article-1.172149
BBC News - Catholic Church loses child abuse liability appeal
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/wfq5e/bbc_news_catholic_church_loses_child_abuse/
Ireland admits involvement in Catholic laundry slavery
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57567706/ireland-admits-involvement-in-catholic-laundry-slavery/
Cover-up claims revive sex scandal
Belgian establishment accused of closing ranks to block investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/21/stephenbates
Belgium Pedophilia Scandal /Did Authorities Cover Up Its Scope?: Book Revives Fear of Grand Conspiracy
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/16/news/16iht-brussels.2.t.html?pagewanted=all
Portugal's elite linked to paedophile ring
Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/27/childprotection.uk
FBI Ran Pedophile Ring to Nab Pedophiles
As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks "while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to a Seattle FBI agent's statements to the court."
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/05/30/FBI-Ran-Pedophile-Ring-to-Nab-Pedophiles
Heres an Amazon link instead of OPs tiny picture
It an older book, but Ellen Aldernan & Kathleen Kennedy’s “In Our Defense” uses real Supreme Court cases to explore each of the amendments to the constitution. They even manage to find a Third Amendment case, which ain’t easy.
Source: Jimmy Carter
Half the Sky
Full Frontal Feminism
Direct link to the article, which is an excerpt of Pres. Carter's upcoming book on the issue.
Thought it was relevant to this sub because of the struggles that even you ladies here in /r/ABCDesis confront regularly. From my discussions with all of you, it seems you bear the brunt of the culture clashes most sharply.
Most of all, I think of my mother who was denied so much of what she wanted in life because of Indian expectations of what women are "supposed" to do. It wasn't even so much that men directly stopped her from doing any of it, it was the "self-policing" she did to stop herself from even trying that hurt me most. I tried for years to help her break out of that, and it's worked to a small extent. But that indoctrination and conditioning is too deeply ingrained to ever leave her fully.
I don't want any other woman on earth to be yet another victim of patriarchal culture like my mom was. That's why I'm so glad Carter is trying to get the world to stop ignoring this.
Edit: Also, link to Pres. Carter's new book which I am definitely going to read soon.
>Does someone have a recommendation in regards to reputable literature about antisemitic tropes and their history?
I'm currently working my way through: Antisemitism Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt. It's dealling with current antisemitism (it was written in last year so it's very topical) but so far it's very comprehensive, and I think that you will find the first chapters defining what antisemitism us very useful.
Women, from the time they are born, are often at the complete mercy of men. Their fathers, uncles, brothers, grandfathers, cousins etc are usually the abusers of defenseless children. They can't fight back and might not be able to tell anyone, and worst of all they are often mind fucked into thinking it's ok. Women are viewed as objects by many men and many men grow up with the objective to obtain a woman via job, car, dating or if that doesn't work, raping, to have sex. Sex and control is the end game for rapists, if a woman doesn't go willingly then they'll take what they want. If a woman, and there are some, had this motivation, it would typically be a much harder task to over power a man and rape him, though it does happen, everybody can get drugged too. Anyway. What I'm getting at is the obvious physical overpowering factor, but also the idea that women aren't motivated to have sex for the same reasons as men and therefore go about things differently, mainly because women find empathy easier than men IMO. As far as empathy for rapists, most were abused themselves as children and grew up in terrible situations that they had no control over. When someone with massive trauma has no control over something in their life it can be extremely frustrating. For men, this often results in massive rage response and violent behavior brought on by festering thoughts and sick ideas that went unchallenged because literally no one ever cared about them enough to help them. They then go on to rape often because of a need to take control of their sex needs from women who, in their view, have denied them of sex they deserved so they control a person to feel powerful or whatever; that or they are just sick sadistic fucks. NO excuse for abusing anyone but hopefully this sheds some light on why. My gf and I worked in social work for years and dealt with both sides. But this is human history we are talking about here. If you're really interested I'd really recommend this book:
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307387097/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_N25JAb756M1PQ
looks like I was barely awake when I posted that, hah.
http://www.amazon.com/Half-Sky-Oppression-Opportunity-Worldwide/dp/0307387097/
The dickhead has a book.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Harry-Became-Sally-Transgender/product-reviews/1594039615/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent#R2JMBCQAZN656
People like the book.
People praise the book.
Im a little scared for America. Just a little.
> It is the judge's job to interpret the law and enforce it. It is the lawmaker's job to write the law and implement it.
Actually, you'll find that "interpreting the law" often puts judges in a role people view as "activist". When a judge is considering the law, they have to look at the text of the law and consider precedent. If there is no precedent, they also have to fall back on anything which might illustrate the lawmakers original intent. Failing that, they also fall back on (yes, it's true), English Common Law as it's ultimately the basis of US law.
The upshot of this is that precedent and intent fall back on the public's evolving community standards. Brown v. Board of Education, for example, overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in part because "separate but equal" did not fit the 1950s evolving notion of equality. However, because the Supreme Court decided, unanimously, to alter how law should be enacted, they perfectly fit the "judicial activism" claim that may politicians harp about today. Frankly, I believe politicians are well aware of this hypocrisy, but it gets voters motivated, so they keep their mouths shut.
If you want more background information about this, I strongly recommend the book In Our Defence: The Bill of Rights in Action by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy. It's a fascinating historical guide of the creation and interpretation of the US Bill of Rights, and has chapters covering each of the first 10 amendments.
You can do something about it by donating to charities that support girls' education in Afghanistan. Last week I gave $25 to The Asia Foundation's Afghan Girls' Education Fund. National Geographic is matching donations at this time :)
Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world and one of the largest disparities in literacy between men and women (source)
Girl's education reduces child mortality rates, increases womens' independence, increases equality, leads to increased women's rights, and increases the probability that her children are educated (Reference - PDF)
I recommend these related books:
Half the Sky
Three Cups of Tea
Stones Into Schools
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Heres an Amazon link instead of OPs tiny picture
> Mal ehrlich, was soll man den ganzen "Verschwörung!"-Schreiern denn jetzt noch erwieder? Außer "Ihr hattet recht" meine ich?
Das kommt darauf an, welche Verschwörung du meinst. Migration als Waffe Das Buch wurde von der International Studies Association (ISA) als bestes Buch des Jahres 2011 ausgezeichnet.
Das ist natürlich nur eine historische Untersuchung. Aber genau das, was im Moment mit Europa/Deutschland passiert. Und die europäischen Politiker stehen daneben und sehen zu.
I do agree with you, but there is another reasoning for punishment that is widely held by many people, and that is the concept of vengence/retribution/revenge. Eye for an eye, even though I do not, a lot of people do believe in this. We need to figure out a justice system that compassionately and constructively rehabilitates, AND satisfies society's need for retribution.
There is actually a movement to abolish prisons entirely.
This is a really good introductory read to the topic, Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis. It is only like 130pgs or so, and it reads fast.
I've been trying to hunt down the source for the claim.
Apparently it's from this book.
I don't have a copy of the book so I can't read the quote in context, but from everything I've found online, she's talking about deaths during child births? Or something?
>“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.
>The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
this is the quote from goodreads.
Half the Sky
The War On Drugs: The Prison Industrial Complex - a documentary about the many ways people profit off of the U.S. prison system
"Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis
You should check out her book Rules for Revolutionaries. The whole Beto campaign was organized around the rules it lays out.
Are you talking about this?
What follows is a small slice of a largely suppressed history of revolution:
Ukraine 1917-1921
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/index.htm
https://libcom.org/history/1917-1921-the-ukrainian-makhnovist-movement
Mexico 1910-1920
https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Freedom-Ricardo-Flores-Reader/dp/1904859240
https://libcom.org/history/mexican-revolution
Chiapas, Mexico: 1994-Present
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/17/mexico-zapatistas-rebels-24-years-mountain-strongholds
following the syndicalist thread, you'll find it all throughout modern history, on every continent in the world. most haven't heard of it, and for good reason. no power structure can abide a challenge.
So-the-fuck-what if Caroline Kennedy has little "political experience," whatever the fuck that means.
She's read the Constitution, heck, she's written a book on the Bill of Rights.
We need less political lemmings in there and more free-thinkers. If we pass up Caroline Kennedy for someone with "political experience", that is, one whose ideals are tainted by decades of maneuvering, the United States will be the sorrier for it.
http://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fascism-Face-Power-America/dp/0896081494
Hey man, before we start a civil war, we can always have a peaceful revolution, I want to live as im sure you would too
https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Revolution-Nonviolent-Techniques-Communities/dp/0812995309
Great infothing.
Recommended reading: "Half the Sky" http://www.amazon.com/Half-Sky-Oppression-Opportunity-Worldwide/dp/0307387097
more
Canadian Sex Worker kicked out of Senate hearings on controversial prostitution law after threatening to reveal list of Canadian federal politicians who use prostitution.
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2g3ch2/canadian_sex_worker_kicked_out_of_senate_hearings/
Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed documents showing child abuse allegations, court told in cover-up case
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/29f9wp/jehovahs_witnesses_destroyed_documents_showing/
Salvation Army 'rented out' boys at Sydney children’s home in Sydney to paedophiles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10606458/Salvation-Army-rented-out-boys-at-Sydney-childrens-home-in-Sydney-to-paedophiles.html
TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4
Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6249748
would you like to know more?
TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4
Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6249748
1989 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OJPeHCmhA
1989 #2 News: Call boys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-k-tfiPfs
1989 story about Bush Sr. Whitehouse call Boy sex ring
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/02/06/15709461.php
Nixon Tape Discusses Homosexuals at Bohemian Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPb-PN9F2Pc
Charges refiled against former Pittsburgh cop accused of running prostitution ring
http://triblive.com/news/2222380-74/johns-police-criminal-charges-pittsburgh-prostitution-allegheny-charged-counts-county#axzz2Qc0wAaBg
Former TSA employee fined $500 for running prostitution ring
Man confronted by police in Silver Spring hotel in February
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120611/NEWS/706119952/1007/former-tsa-employee-fined-500-for-running-prostitution-ring&template=gazette
School board member convicted of running prostitution ring in California
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904911-school-board-member-convicted-of-running-prostitution-ring-in-california?lite
FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/146xzt/fbi_dads_spyware_experiment_accidentally_exposes/
The Franklin Cover-Up - John DeCamp - Full film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWrrBceuP4
The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366098964&sr=8-1&keywords=franklin+coverup
Pentagon Child Porn Scandal: Security Agencies Were Left At Risk, Investigators Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/pentagon-child-porn-scand_n_656839.html
Secret Service Prostitution Scandal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/secret-service-prostitution-scandal
A Party under Fire: A Scandal-Scarred GOP Asks, ‘What Next?’
Explicit e-mails with under-age male pages. Criminal lobbyists. Being on client lists for prostitution rings. FBI corruption investigations. And, now, soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. People are beginning to wonder: how low can Republican lawmakers go?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/a-party-under-fire-a-scandal-scarred-gop-asks-what-next-a-502653.html
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html
The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-11/opinions/36798466_1_deborah-jeane-palfrey-prosecutors-shock-and-awe
Mike Horner Prostitution Scandal: GOP State Rep. Resigns After Name Reportedly Surfaces On Client List
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/mike-horner-sex-prostitution-scandal_n_1910647.html
Another One: Top Federal Judge Linked to Prostitution Ring
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4452917&page=1#.UW0JY0pcnn4
‘Comfort Women’ Controversy Comes to New York
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/comfort-women-controversy-comes-to-new-york/
Sex scandal rocks Vatican: Papal usher, chorister linked to gay prostitution ring
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-scandal-rocks-vatican-papal-usher-chorister-linked-gay-prostitution-ring-article-1.172149
BBC News - Catholic Church loses child abuse liability appeal
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/wfq5e/bbc_news_catholic_church_loses_child_abuse/
Ireland admits involvement in Catholic laundry slavery
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57567706/ireland-admits-involvement-in-catholic-laundry-slavery/
Cover-up claims revive sex scandal
Belgian establishment accused of closing ranks to block investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/21/stephenbates
Belgium Pedophilia Scandal /Did Authorities Cover Up Its Scope?: Book Revives Fear of Grand Conspiracy
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/16/news/16iht-brussels.2.t.html?pagewanted=all
Portugal's elite linked to paedophile ring
Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/27/childprotection.uk
FBI Ran Pedophile Ring to Nab Pedophiles
As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks "while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to a Seattle FBI agent's statements to the court."
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/05/30/FBI-Ran-Pedophile-Ring-to-Nab-Pedophiles
more
Canadian Sex Worker kicked out of Senate hearings on controversial prostitution law after threatening to reveal list of Canadian federal politicians who use prostitution.
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2g3ch2/canadian_sex_worker_kicked_out_of_senate_hearings/
Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed documents showing child abuse allegations, court told in cover-up case
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/29f9wp/jehovahs_witnesses_destroyed_documents_showing/
Salvation Army 'rented out' boys at Sydney children’s home in Sydney to paedophiles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10606458/Salvation-Army-rented-out-boys-at-Sydney-childrens-home-in-Sydney-to-paedophiles.html
TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4
Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6249748
>The Judeo-Left was protesting with the flags of the "Libyan revolution" against Qaddaffi as well. Then after supporting it, pretend they never did.
I'll go ahead and dispute this one. It may be that CNN/MSNBC etc made it seem like there was some kind of popular support for the Libyan intervention as if it was part of "Arab Spring", but most 'real' leftists and leftist representatives were against it.
Cynthia McKinney (2008 Green presidential candidate) comes to mind as someone who opposed the Libyan intervention both before and after.
https://www.amazon.com/Illegal-War-Libya-Cynthia-McKinney/dp/098527106X
In short, it's useful to distinguish b/w the neo-liberal corporate left and the actual activist anti-war left when it comes to issues like this.
As for the Kurds, don't confuse the PKK/YPG with the Peshmerga. For more on the ideology behind the PKK and/or YPG see
http://www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ocalan-Democratic-Confederalism.pdf
Its actually only an exerpt from this book:
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
Rather than focus on the players, focus on the methods being implemented.
There is documentation from various churches throughout the region, where soros funded the migration through the churches, including maps, phones, money, cloths, and promises of help getting setup in the various countries receiving the migration.
There is also various documentation that the US government, Germany and France were fully aware it was going to take place a year before the mass migration started.
The title comes from this book.
From the blurb "More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a matter of course and without effective recourse? "
Read this article particularly the fourth and fifth questions. If you want more details, take a look at Ezra Levant's book.
I found this. It's a bestseller, so I will give it a read. https://www.amazon.com/When-Harry-Became-Sally-Transgender/dp/1594039615
https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fascism-Face-Power-America/dp/0896081494
Ohoh ..salt ! And hurt butts ! So, mental midgets.. Sorry, I mean, fascists , not happy when exposed to opposing opinions? lol Can't blame you, that's how fascists behave.
Keep'em raining, they're medals to me !