The silenced majority : stories of uprisings, occupations, resistance, and hope

Available Formats:

Details:

  • Contributor:

    Moynihan, Denis

    Summary:

    The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent "From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza." Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media-and change the world.

    Contents:
    • Obama's wars: a tragedy in three acts. Act I: the wars abroad ; Act II: the war on veterans and soldiers ; Act 3: the war on the public treasury
    • Money in politics
    • Climate change
    • Dirty energy
    • Race, racism, and the myth of post-racial America
    • Capital punishment: the machinery of death
    • Wikileaks and the crackdown on dissent
    • Uprisings: from the Arab spring to occupy Wall Street
    • When corporations rule
    • Undoing the coups, from Haiti to Honduras
    • More news from the unreported world
    • Luminaries
    • Stop the violence.
    Subject(s): History
    Original Publisher: Chicago , Haymarket Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781608462315

    ,

    1608462315

Details

DC Contributor

Moynihan, Denis

Abstract

The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent "From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza." Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media-and change the world.

Subject
History
Publisher (Source)

Chicago

Haymarket Books

Not specified

Record