Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000 - Couverture souple

Hermes, Kris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1629631027 ISBN 13 : 9781629631028

Editeur : PM Press, 2015

Synopsis

Over the past 15 years, people in the United States - dissidents in particular - have witnessed a steady escalation of the National Security State, including invasive surveillance, indiscriminate police violence and unlawful arrests. Normally associated with the realities of a post-9/11 world, these developments were actually being set in motion during the Republican National Convention (RNC) protests in 2000, as Crashing the Party shows. It also documents how, in response, dissidents confronted new forms of political repression by pushing legal boundaries.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kris Hermes is a Bay Area-based activist who has worked for nearly thirty years on social justice issues. Organizing with ACT UP Philadelphia in the late 1990s spurred his interest in legal support work and led to his years-long involvement with R2K Legal. Since 2000, Hermes has been an active, award-winning legal worker-member of the National Lawyers Guild and has been a part of numerous law collectives and legal support efforts over the years. In this capacity, he has organized dozens of press conference and spoken at numerous community meetings, political conferences, book fairs, and other similar events across the U.S. Hermes has written extensively in his professional career as a media worker and as a legal activist.

Marina Sitrin is a writer, lawyer, teacher, organizer, and dreamer. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina, author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism & Autonomy in Argentina and coauthor of They Can't Represent US! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. She has a JD in International Women's Human Rights from CUNY Law School and a PhD in Global Sociology from Stony Brook University.

Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and former executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. She is the cohost of the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder on Pacifica's WBAI in New York and over forty national affiliates. She received her JD from Temple Law School where she was the editor in chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. She also holds an MS from Boston University and a BA from Brown University. She is the author of Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1629631027
• ISBN 13: 9781629631028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible