From ACT UP to the WTO - Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization

This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. Divided into five sections, it explores the innovative use of civil rights era non-violent disobedience, media work and race and community building, to show how ACT UP has transformed activism.

About the author

Andrew Boyd is a writer and activist living in New York. He is the author of Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip

Stephen Duncombe, an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, is the author of Dream and Notes from Underground, editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader, and coeditor (with Maxwell Tremblay) of White Riot.

L.A. Kauffman is an activist and organizer.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine.

Summary

This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. Divided into five sections, it explores the innovative use of civil rights era non-violent disobedience, media work and race and community building, to show how ACT UP has transformed activism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ronald Hayduk (Editor), Hayduk Ronald (Editor), Benjamin Shepard (Editor), Shepard Benjamin (Editor)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2002
• EAN: 9781859843567
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-356-7
• No. of pages: 442
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 195 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 776 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Civil rights & citizenship, Demonstrations & protest movements, Civics and citizenship