A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters
Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster— whether manmade or natural—people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communi...
A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans are a “positive†people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-i...
About the Book
The Global Resistance Reader provides the first comprehensive account of the phenomenal rise of transnational social movements which have opposed the financial, economic and political hegemony of large international organizations s...
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The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one...
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Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes sin...
The founder of one of the most influential political blogs in the nation establishes the fundamental laws that govern today's new era of digital activism.
The laws of power have changed - and will continue to do so in our ever-evolving, digital...
A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a new introduction
According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
Voted one of the Best Political Books of 2004 by SF Station
The attacks of 9/11 have renewed a hunger for ideas about how to effect change. The strategies and hard-won victories of dedicated activists from global justice and community struggles...
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative new study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain -good policies" and -good institutions", seen today as necess...
Why are oil and gas prices so high?
Who's really controlling those prices?
How much oil is left?
How far will Big Oil go to get it?
And at what cost to the environment, human rights, the economy, worker safety, publ...
Examining a series of El Ni�±o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident tha...
Melissa Roberts was born at an early age. Her primary passions are activism, laughter, and lookin... more
Melissa Roberts was born at an early age. Her primary passions are activism, laughter, and looking for connections between single issue politics in order to empower the oppressed, and build a healthy, free society.
Melissa believes laughter and humor (particularly self-irony) are essential to our survival during these dark times. The Yes Men are among her heros!
Melissa's particular areas of activist interest include: anti-war---she has been active in Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, and a supporter of Courage to Resist; labor---she has been an IWW member over 20 years, as well as a left trade union organizer; environment--she actively works for climate justice, and way beyond talk; her forest activism included work with the late Judi Bari and efforts to unite timber workers with environmentalists against corporate logging company greed; she is a supporter of sustainable agriculture and climate justice; civil liberties---exposing government repression of activism via fear-mongering through false "terrorism" labels (ranging from illegal dention of 'war prisoners', to the Green Scare, etc.); advocacy for independent media like Democracy Now!, Indy Media and community media like Global Voices and Works in Progress; anti-racism; anti-poverty; anti-imperialism ...among many other interests.
She currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and works fulltime to fix the world.
