
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life
My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this urgent audiobook from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationally.
A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life is the story of the movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, at a time when sterilization was disproportionately proposed as birth control to Black, Latinx, and poor women. Their victories occurred just before and after Roe v. Wade, and their histories cast new light on the case and the fate of reproductive rights and justice today. From dissident Democrats and members of a rising feminist movement who refashioned abortion laws, to progressive ministers and rabbis who led the nation’s largest abortion referral service, to Puerto Rican activists who introduced sterilization abuse to the reproductive rights agenda and Black women who took the cause global, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life chronicles how activists changed the law and demanded reproductive justice. The first in-depth study of a winning campaign to change a state’s abortion law, with firsthand accounts and previously unseen sources—including from her mother, who drafted New York’s law decriminalizing abortion, and across-the-hall neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías, a Puerto Rican doctor and leader in the movement against sterilization abuse—Felicia Kornbluh shows how grassroots action overcame the odds—and how it might work today.
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In this taut inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement’s core, and how religion often cloaked anxieties about perceived threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an antidemocratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda.
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How We Got Here
- De D. Sooley en 06-16-20
De: Sarah Posner
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- De: Jane McAlevey
- Narrado por: Jane McAlevey
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.
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Disappointing
- De Ellen en 01-26-20
De: Jane McAlevey
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The Next Red Wave
- How Conservatives Can Beat Leftist Aggression, RINO Betrayal & Deep State Subversion
- De: Jordan Sekulow, Matthew Clark - contributor, Benjamin Sisney - contributor
- Narrado por: Jordan Sekulow
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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The next red wave is coming: November 3, 2020. We face battles on many fronts. The Deep State bureaucracy will stop at nothing to undermine the conservative agenda, even when that's the agenda chosen by the American voter. The liberal bureaucracy will continue to work alongside former liberal government officials from, yes, the Obama Administration and Team Clinton. In this election, the Left's prized goal - exclusively - will be defeating President Donald Trump by whatever means necessary.
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FABULOUS AND TIMELY
- De Michael Niebuhr en 09-26-19
De: Jordan Sekulow, y otros
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Sisters in Law
- How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
- De: Linda Hirshman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.
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Insightful and thought-provoking
- De Jean en 09-08-15
De: Linda Hirshman
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Supreme Disorder
- Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court
- De: Ilya Shapiro
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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The brutal confirmation battles we saw over Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are symptoms of a larger problem with our third branch of government, a problem that began long before Kavanaugh, Merrick Garland, Clarence Thomas, or even Robert Bork: the courts’ own self-corruption, aiding and abetting the expansion of federal power.
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Tremendous detail
- De Charles en 07-15-22
De: Ilya Shapiro
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Resistance
- How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump
- De: Jennifer Rubin
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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In the tradition of Shattered and Game Change, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin provides an insider’s look at how women across the political spectrum carried a revolution to the ballot box and defeated Donald Trump, based on interviews with key figures such as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and many more.
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An excellent book
- De Gary en 02-02-22
De: Jennifer Rubin
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Big Agenda
- President Trump's Plan to Save America
- De: David Horowitz
- Narrado por: Ian Patterson
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is an indispensable guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are, as well as their methods, motivations, and agenda, including the particular issues with which they will try to advance their destructive goal - and it lays out a strategy to defeat all of it.
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Title doesn't match content.
- De Gigi en 02-12-17
De: David Horowitz
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The Black Cabinet
- The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
- De: Jill Watts
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
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In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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Brilliant, important, and little known history
- De Barry en 06-21-20
De: Jill Watts
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The Supremes' Greatest Hits, 2nd Revised & Updated Edition
- The 44 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
- De: Michael G. Trachtman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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The Supreme Court's rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and the right to a fair trial. This revised and updated edition of Michael G. Trachtman's riveting work includes 10 important cases from 2010 to 2015.
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Nice review overall.
- De "freeindeed4ever" en 02-10-20
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
- Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
- De: Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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The Fierce Urgency of Now animates the full spectrum of forces at play during these turbulent years, including religious groups, the media, conservative and liberal political action groups, unions, and civil rights activists. Above all, the great character in the audiobook whose role rivals Johnson's is Congress - indeed, Zelizer argues that our understanding of the Great Society program is too Johnson-centric.
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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
- The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
- De: Thom Hartmann
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks: What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison.
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A must read to understand why voting is essential.
- De Brandon WIlliams en 10-05-19
De: Thom Hartmann
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
- The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965
- De: Jia Lynn Yang
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.
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Good overview
- De steve thomas en 10-21-20
De: Jia Lynn Yang
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Rise Up
- Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
- De: Al Sharpton
- Narrado por: Al Sharpton, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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Beginning with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson, Rise Up is a rousing call to action for our nation, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Al Sharpton’s unique experience as a politician, television and radio host, and civil rights leader.
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Inspired and inspiring
- De Jessica S en 10-13-20
De: Al Sharpton