From Cairo to Wall Street - Voices From the Global Spring

Klappentext "The first essential text of a new and remarkably dynamic era of social activism that has already brought profound change to the world." -Bob Herbert   Something was in the air in 2011, as protest movements swept through the world-from the Arab Spring, to Spain's Indignados, to the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan across the United States in the wake of the global financial collapse.   This volume collects firsthand accounts and essays about this extraordinary period-providing not only an overview of recent historical events and personal insights about what motivates people to take a stand, but also food for thought on how these events marked a turning point that shaped our current world.

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• Authors: Anya Kircher-Allen Schiffrin
• Assisted by: Eamon Kircher-Allen (Editor), Anya Schiffrin (Editor), Joseph Stiglitz (Editor)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9781595588272
• ISBN: 978-1-59558-827-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education