From ACT UP to the WTO : urban protest and community building in the era of globalization /: urban protest and community building in the era of globalization. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk.
• Other Names: Shepard, Benjamin Heim; Hayduk, Ronald, 1958-
• Contents: Creating a new literature for a new era of community organizing / Eric Rofes -- Urban protest and community building in the era of globalization / Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk -- Introductory notes on the trail from ACT Up to the WTO / Benjamin Shepard -- Target practice: community activism in a global era / Lesley J. Wood and Kelly Moore -- A short history of radical renewal / L.A. Kauffman -- This city is ours / Esther Kaplan -- How we really shut down the WTO / Starhawk -- Community labor alliances: a new paradigm in the campaign to organize greengrocery workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness -- Students, sweatships, and local power / Joel Lefkowitz -- Jubilee 2000 Northwest: breaking the chains of global debt / Bronwyn Mauldin -- An ACT UP founder "acts up" for Africa's access to AIDS / Eric Sawyer -- Radical queers or queer radicals? Queer activism and the global justice movement / Liz Highleyman -- Jail house rocks, "Matthew Shepard lives!" / Leslie Feinberg -- From Stonewall to Diallo / Benjamin Shepard interviews Bob Kohler -- The reproductive rights movement, ACT UP, and the Lesbian Avengers / Benjamin Shepard interviews Sarah Schulman -- From WHAM! to ACT UP / Tracy Morgan -- Beyond patient and polite: a call for direct action and civil disobedience on behalf of same-sex marriage / Eric Rofes -- Amanda Milan and the rebirth of the Street Trans Action Revolutionaries / Benjamin Shepard -- When private clubs serve the public / Susan Wright -- Jacks of color: an oral history / Benjamin Shepard interviews Liddell Jackson -- The city as body politic/ the body as city unto itself / Jim Eigo -- Culture jamming a SexPanic! / Benjamin Shepard -- Stepping off the sidewalk: reclaim the streets/NYC / Stephen Duncombe -- Saving Esperanza Garden: the struggle over community gardens in New York City / Kerstin Mikalbrown -- At cross purposes: the Church ladies for Choice / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- The Adelante Street Theater Project: theatricalizing dissent in the streets of New York City / Carmelina Cartei -- Irony, meme warfare, and the extreme costime ball / Andrew Boyd -- Kneel before Bush! The origin of Students for an Undemocratic Society / Jason Grote -- The vision thing: were the DC and Seattle protests unfocused, or are critics missing the point? / Naomi Klein -- Mayan technologies and the theory of electronic civil disobedience / Benjamin Shepard and Stephen Duncombe interview Ricardo Dominquez -- The birth and promise of the Indymedia revolution / Ana Nogueira -- "So many alternatives" The Alternative AIDS video movement / Alexandra Juhasz -- Black August continues: an exemplary blend of hi-hop and political history for social justice / Sofia Quintero -- Wednesday, July 12: invasions of three NYC Starbucks / Bill Talen, AKA Reverend Billy -- From Los Angeles to Seattle: world city politics and the new global resistance / Roger Keil -- Can Black radicalism speak the voice of Black workers? Bill Fletcher, Jr. -- The fight for living wages / Stephanie Luce -- Building a healing community from ACT UP to housing works / Benjamin Shepard interviews Keith Cyler -- Harm reduction in the USA: a movement toward social justice / Alan Greig and Sara Kershnar -- The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition / Margaret Groarke and Jordan Moss -- Community development and community organizing: Apples and oranges? Chicken and egg? / Randy Stoecker -- Joy, justice, and resistance to the new global apartheid / Benjamin Shepard.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Verso
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (442 pages)
• Subjects: 322.40973; Political activists -- United States; Social movements -- United States; Activistes -- États-Unis; Mouvements sociaux -- États-Unis; Political activists; Social movements; Antiglobalisierungsbewegung; Antiglobalisierungsbewegung; United States; History; History; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789607734; 1789607736
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.