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The slave's cause : a history of abolition / by Sinha, Manisha,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave's cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe.".
Subjects: Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery movements; Slavery;
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Songs of America : patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation / by Meacham, Jon,author.; McGraw, Tim,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Music; Protest songs; Patriotic music; Music;
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A politics of love : a handbook for a new American revolution / by Williamson, Marianne,1952-author.;
Subjects: Spirituality; Religion and culture; Religion and politics; Social values; Love;
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We steal secrets [videorecording] : the story of Wikileaks / by Assange, Julian.; Gibney, Alex.; Alliance Films.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Focus World (Firm); Jigsaw Productions.;
Editor: Andy Grieve ; director of photography: Maryse Alberti ; cinematographer: Mark Davis ; composer: Will Bates.A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller, about Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in the U.S. history. Paralleling Assange's rise and fall with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the troubled young soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, and multi-layered expose about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth.Canadian Home Viedeo Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Assange, Julian.; WikiLeaks (Organization); Editors; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Official secrets.; Publishers and publishing; Transparency in government.; Whistle blowing;
© c2013., Alliance Films : Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Snowden's box : trust in the age of surveillance / by Bruder, Jessica,author.; Maharidge, Dale,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the summer of 2013, the world was riveted by Edward Snowden's leak of millions of classified documents detailing the US government's massive and secret electronic surveillance program, in which the NSA had infiltrated tech companies, communication systems, emails and phones to spy on, among others, its own citizens. But this digital-age story had an analog side--Snowden mailed printed-out documents to the journalists Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, who hid them in barrels, in an outhouse, and in a tree. Thus began an education in surveillance and counter-surveillance for these two experienced reporters, who were nonetheless completely ignorant about the lack of privacy they--and all of us--now have"--
Subjects: Snowden, Edward J., 1983-; Electronic surveillance; Confidential communications; Journalism;
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Sideways : the city Google couldn't buy / by O'Kane, Josh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything. When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, and with Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property--with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO--Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition. But as soon as the bid was won, cracks appeared in the partnership between Doctoroff's team and Waterfront Toronto, the government-sponsored organization behind the contest. There were hundreds more acres of undeveloped former port lands nearby that kept creeping into conversation with Sidewalk, and more questions were emerging than answers about how much the public would actually benefit from the Alphabet-owned company's vision for the high-tech neighbourhood--and the data it could harvest from the people living there. Alarm bells began ringing in the city's corridors of power and activism. To Torontonians accustomed to big promises with little follow-through, the fiasco that unfolded seemed at first like just another city-building sideshow. But the pained battle to reel in the power of Sidewalk Labs became a crucible moment in the worldwide battle for privacy rights and against the extension of Big Tech's digital might into the physical world around us. With extensive contacts on all sides of the debacle, O'Kane tells a story of global consequence fought over a small, forgotten parcel of mud and pavement, taking readers from California to New York to Toronto to Berlin and back again. In the tradition of extraordinary boardroom dramas like Bad Blood and Super Pumped, Sideways vividly recreates the corporate drama and epic personalities in this David-and-Goliath battle that signalled to the world that all may not be lost in the effort to contain the rapidly growing power of Big Tech"--
Subjects: Google (Firm); City planning; Data privacy; Privacy, Right of; Technology; Waterfronts; Technology;
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Fahrenheit 451 [videorecording] / by Bahrani, Ramin,television director,screenwriter.; Davis, Aaron,actor.; Jordan, Michael B.(Michael Bakari),1987-actor.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Boutella, Sofia,1982-actor.; Katz, Cindy,actor.; Bradbury, Ray,1920-2012.Fahrenheit 451.; HBO Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Home Box Office (Firm),presenter.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Michael B. Jordan, Cindy Katz, Aaron Davis, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella.In a terrifying care-free future, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman, and begins to rebel against society.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Made-for-TV movies.; Science fiction television programs.; Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.; Dystopias; Reading; Book burning; Censorship; Intellectual freedom; Totalitarianism;
For private home use only.
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Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy / by O'Neil, Cathy.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Big data; Big data; Social indicators; Democracy;
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Hoax : Donald Trump, Fox news and the dangerous distortion of truth / by Stelter, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The CNN correspondent examines Donald Trump's controversial relationship with the Fox News network and discusses the tensions at the network between Trump loyalists and the few remaining journalists.
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Fox News.; Television and politics; Television broadcasting of news; Truthfulness and falsehood;
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Pussy Riot! : a punk prayer for freedom : letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world. -- by Pussy Riot (Punk rock group);
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Subjects: Pussy Riot (Punk rock group); Pussy Riot (Punk rock group); Punk rock musicians; Artists; Art; Art and society; Protest movements; Punk rock music; Music;
© 2013., Feminist Press,
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