Necessary trouble : Americans in revolt / Sarah Jaffe.
2016
HN59.2 .J34 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Necessary trouble : Americans in revolt / Sarah Jaffe.
Author
Jaffe, Sarah, 1980- author.
ISBN
9781568585369 (hardcover)
1568585365 (hardcover)
1568585365 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Nation Books, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
xi, 338 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HN59.2 .J34 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/40973
Summary
We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century black freedom struggle with BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street, and the grassroots networks supporting presidential candidates in defiance of the traditional party elites. Sarah Jaffe leads readers into the heart of these movements, explaining what has made ordinary Americans become activists. As Jaffe argues, the financial crisis in 2008 was the spark, the moment that crystallized that something was wrong. For years, Jaffe crisscrossed the country, asking people what they were angry about, and what they were doing to take power back. She attended a people's assembly in a church gymnasium in Ferguson, Missouri; walked a picket line at an Atlanta Burger King; rode a bus from New York to Ohio with student organizers; and went door-to-door in Queens days after Hurricane Sandy. From the successful fight for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle and New York to the halting of Shell's Arctic drilling program, Americans are discovering the effectiveness of making good, necessary trouble. Regardless of political alignment, they are challenging who wields power in this country.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.
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Table of Contents
No future shock
Banks got bailed out, we got sold out
Middle-class meltdown and the debt trap
Walmart, Walmart, you can't hide, we can see your greedy side
Challenging the Austeritarians
Race to the bottom
A moral movement
Red scares and radical imagination
The militarization of everything
Change is gonna come
Our future is not yours to leverage.
Banks got bailed out, we got sold out
Middle-class meltdown and the debt trap
Walmart, Walmart, you can't hide, we can see your greedy side
Challenging the Austeritarians
Race to the bottom
A moral movement
Red scares and radical imagination
The militarization of everything
Change is gonna come
Our future is not yours to leverage.