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Nel gennaio 2017, in uno dei suoi ultimi atti esecutivi come presidente degli Stati Uniti, Barack Obama concesse la grazia a Chelsea Manning. Imputata con 22 capi d'accusa, Manning avrebbe dovuto affrontare ancora una pena di ventotto anni di reclusione per aver svelato a WikiLeaks documenti diplomatici e militari confidenziali del governo degli Stati Uniti.

"This was avoidable. These are unnecessary deaths. It's not a 'war'. This is a health crisis. This is systemic negligence." When Dr Meenal Viz, a heavily pregnant frontline NHS doctor, witnessed her colleagues die from the negligent handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was determined to take a...

Rural America deserves more than an elegy: a powerful story of hope, resilience, and political resistance where you least expect it, from Idaho’s first openly LGBTQ+ lawmaker "One doesn’t need to be queer to feel seen, heard, and empowered. ...A reminder that activists need to believe that...

Nevertheless, she persisted. These three words became an inspiring battle cry across the United States in 2017, but the woman to whom they refer has been fighting passionately all of her life. Raised in a tough working-class home in Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren went on to become a revered scholar, a law professor, a US Senator, and an unlikely political star.

El mayor escándalo diplomático de la historia. Una vida al servicio de la verdad. Las memorias que agitarán la geopolítica mundial. «Me llamo Edward Snowden. Antes trabajaba para el gobierno, pero ahora trabajo para el pueblo.» En 2013, Edward Snowden, responsable de la mayor filtración...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In 1942, one...

Maravilloso pensador y fundamental líder del período de nacionalismo y movimiento por la libertad hindú. Es la personalidad indígena más relevante de la historia india contemporánea, y figura emblemática de la escena política y social de su país durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.

Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X’s final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. "A classic in the making." —Spike Lee, When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, he did more than cross geographic borders–he...

Amazon Editors' Pick - Best History Books of May We all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of injustice after injustice. In this powerful story of one lawyer’s fight for his community, both justice and hope are...

Saskia Niño de Rivera cuenta en este libro los momentos que la han marcado en su labor como promotora de la justicia, el dolor que le causa la impunidad creciente y su amor por México. Abre su corazón para ofrecer páginas conmovedoras dedicadas a su esposa y a sus hijos, los obstáculos que representa ser madre en una relación homoparental y los prejuicios que debe superar en el camino para ser una activista social combativa y soñadora.

Anfang 2020 zog Jabarine nach Ramallah, um zu verstehen, was »Palästina« bedeutet: für die Menschen auf der einen Seite der Mauer und für die auf der anderen. In ihrem Hörbuch erzählt sie Geschichten von Menschlichkeit und Lebensfreude, aber auch von Widerstand. Geschichten, die dabei helfen, die Realität in Israel und Palästina zu verstehen.

Hamza Abu Howidy erzählt uns vom Aufwachsen im Gaza der 2000er-Jahre, von seiner Familie, besonders seinem Vater, der ihm beim Muschelsammeln die großen Lektionen des Lebens beigebracht hat, aber auch von den blutigen Kämpfen zwischen Fatah und Hamas, direkt vor seiner Haustür, und wie sehr das Leben in Gaza von Terror geprägt war. Jahre später protestiert er gegen die Hamas und wird festgenommen, gefoltert und muss fliehen.

Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines. Throughout their travels, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much pain and suffering on both sides, when there have been so many lives lost and families shattered, how can they ever find hope? In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take listeners on their unforgettable weeklong journey across the holy land.

Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana. In this autobiography...

In the Shadow of the American Dream is a stunning collection of riveting and revealing chapters from Wojnarowicz's extensive personal diaries - 30 volumes' worth of memories and lucid observations, some bitter, some sweet - that the author began writing when he was 17 and continued until his death two decades later. Here is a brilliant chronicle of an artist's emergence - a young man's still achingly fresh memories of his unhappy adolescence and his glorious discovery of self.

In the three decades since April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot to death in Memphis, scores of books and articles have questioned whether James Earl Ray, King's killer, acted alone or was part of a larger conspiracy. Now, based on explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence, best-selling author Gerald Posner finally resolves the simple truth of the last great political murder mystery of the 1960s, definitively proving that Ray acted alone.

David Wojnarowicz's brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence marked by neglect, drugs, prostitution, and abuse to a squalid life on the streets of New York City, to fame - and infamy - as an activist and controversial visual artist whose work was lambasted in the halls of Congress, all before his early death from AIDS at age thirty-seven, Wojnarowicz seemed to be at war with a homophobic "establishment" and the world itself. Yet what emerged from the darkness was a truly extraordinary artist and human being.

"Mi avete scritto sui manifesti che sono buono da mangiare? Purtroppo per voi che vi muovete nell'ombra, sono un prete indigesto. Un essere umano disposto a sacrificare se stesso con la massima umiltà, ma anche con la straordinaria forza della parola di Dio." È questa la risposta di don Antonio Coluccia dopo essere stato minacciato e appena prima di trovare la sua auto crivellata da una raffica di proiettili a Specchia, il comune vicino a Lecce dov'è nato.

كل المبادئ التي طبقها غاندي في الحياة السياسية والاجتماعية، كان لها أسس روحية ودينية قوية، وهذه الأسس هي التي عظَّمت تأثير هذه المبادئ، وربما يكون هذا الكتاب بمثابة تسليط للضوء على هذه الأسس الراسخة لغاندي، والتي كرَّس حياته لها تمامًا، واعتبر أن كل ما يفعله على الصعيد السياسي ما هو إلا شكل من أشكال بحثه عن الحقيقة والله، وكان يؤمن أنه من الممكن العيش وفقًا لحياة روحية وأخلاقية وتطبيق ذلك على المجال السياسي أيضًا: «... لذلك علينا إقامة ملكوت السماوات في السياسة أيضًا.

Bloomsbury presents Here Where We Live is Our Country by Molly Crabapple, read by Nina Yndis and Molly Crabapple A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten men...