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Informationen zum Autor Sandra has helped several churches with administration, newsletters, Sunday school, scripture, kids' clubs, women's ministries, and youth groups. She helped a Christian School set up its library and canteen; wrote the newspaper reports and volunteered as a teacher's aide, and was very involved with the P&C (Parents and Citizens Association). Sandra has also helped a lot of businesses with their administrative, safety and compliance systems.Now, having operated with this gift for over three decades, she is keen to share her experiences and what she has learned from studying the Biblical interpretation of spiritual help. Sandra is currently studying a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Newcastle, majoring in English and Writing. She is a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers. She has had short stories published in Beneath the Surface, and Memory in Lockdown: Creative Nonfiction (which she also co-edited); and won third place in the Odyssey House Short Story Competition 2019.Believe it or not, her birth name is Sandra Joy (surname irrelevant). Sandra means Helper and Joy means Happy. So, call her the "Happy Helper". Happy reading. Klappentext While a great deal of research has been done about many aspects of the death penalty, very little attention has been paid to the movement organized against it. Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement fills that gap with an empirical examination of the external and internal factors that shape the role race plays in the anti-death penalty movement. While the death rows across the U.S. are overwhelmingly filled with racial minorities and the poor, the ranks of the anti-death penalty movement are dominated by white, middle-class professionals. The attention given to race arises out of this racial distinction between death row inmates and the activists who advocate for them.By conducting interviews with white, black, and Latino anti-death penalty activists, this book examines the influence of race on the mobilization of activists and their approach toward abolition. The concepts of political opportunity, mobilizing structures, and framing provided by the political process model, are used to describe the complex manner in which moral opposition to the death penalty is shaped by the racial realities of the activists. Although racial tensions lie just below the surface, they nonetheless create real obstacles for the movement as it strives to build a racially diverse coalition of activists aimed at death penalty abolition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Political Process Theory and the Anti-Death PenaltyChapter 2: Becoming Mobilized Against the Death PenaltyChapter 3: Political Opportunities and Constraints on ActivismChapter 4: Organizational Dynamics in the MovementChapter 5: Framing Opposition to the Death PenaltyChapter 6: Future Directions...
