@article{775541,
      recid = {775541},
      author = {Jaffe, Sarah,},
      title = {Necessary trouble : Americans in revolt /},
      pages = {xi, 338 pages ;},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775541},
}