Search Results for advocate

... scrutiny. How foolish the sanitized and sentimen talized version will then seem. Bernadine Dohis a child advocate in the areas of juvenile justice and child welfare in Chicago. She was a national officer of Students for a Democratic Society, was on the FBI’s ten most wanted list...

.... Historians of social movements are ideally placed to challenge the statist and legalistic assumptions dominating the current literature on human rights. Statists, in looking to the state to solve human rights violations, essentially advocate an increase in the power of states. Such an approach can...

...Nancy Borowick Nearly 1 billion people do not have access to safe or clean drinking water. The people of Ghana are reflected in this statistic, and, as a photojournalist, Nancy Borowick advocates for these communities through her images. © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc...

...Lyell Davies In “Grassroots Perspectives on Media Justice Organizing,” community organizers and media justice advocates Rusita Avila (Media Literacy Project), Todd Wolfson (Media Mobilizing Project), and Betty Yu (Center for Media Justice) discuss the meaning of “media justice” as it relates to low...

...Ben Zdencanovic Abstract This essay examines the early life and work of the Russian American social reformer Abraham Epstein, an advocate for old-age pensions and compulsory social insurance whose work as head of the American Association for Social Security helped lead to the passage of the 1935...

...Salonee Bhaman Abstract This article explores the interrelated struggles for housing and HIV/AIDS care during the first decades of the epidemic in New York City. It follows municipal and activist responses to a growing homeless population alongside the work of tenants’ rights advocates to explore...

... quota system. Claiming that the new law discriminated against Europeans, Irish advocates framed their campaign as an effort to diversify the post-1965 immigrant pool, which was predominantly Asian and Latin American. By examining the rhetoric deployed in congressional hearings and media appearances...

.... Furthermore, at a transitional moment when Cuban leadership advocated institutionalization of the revolution, the Federation of Cuban Women provided highly visible opportunities for Davis to speak and be seen not afforded to men in the black liberation movement. Davis’s time in Cuba proved transformative...

... food and land politics of Ricardo Flores Magón, and the nature-informed radical sex politics of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. It finds that “anarchism” did not just mean the destruction of the state and capitalism to its advocates, but the construction of a new political-economic-natural system...

... efforts to examine abuses against guerrilla supporters, they advocated behind the scenes for international oversight of prisons, and, in doing so, helped save lives. However, former prisoners’ analyses of the documents shows that US advocacy perpetuated grave misrepresentations about the nature of state...

...India Thusi Abstract Sex worker organizations in South Africa have engaged in significant advocacy to eliminate the current laws that criminalize the sale of sexual services there. Advocates argue that criminalization stigmatizes sex workers by labeling their conduct as unlawful, pushing them...

... advocates, anti-Depo-Provera activists, and family planning workers—responded to the questions raised by Depo-Provera’s uneven global distribution. As an historical artifact, Depo-Provera reveals the multiple ways communities thought about global power at a moment of transition away from a world order...

..., the collective advocates a collaborative approach that brings together findings from multiple archives and regional specialties, both enabling and sharing research from the point of archival inquiry to dissemination. While recognizing the unique insights of archives, they seek to harness the possibilities...

... as it advocates this bildungs -centrism, participates in a history of violence—of slavery, genocide, and settler colonialism—which remains constitutive for the formation of literary fields and objects of study. In doing so this article examines a single Hebrew-language novel, S. Yizhar's Khirbet Khizeh (1949...

...John Scott; Jane Scoular Abstract In the context of a fiercely polarized battle on the correct legal response to prostitution, sex workers and their advocates often advance decriminalization as a policy that can protect rights and provide improved health and safety for those involved in the sex...

...Kate Marquez Abstract “Reflections” are short essays by sex work activists, scholars, and advocates about their personal experiences with a “troubling term” of their choice. They are exemplary of a methodological approach that never takes for granted the histories, legacies, and effects...

... of sex work and trafficking . The essay goes on to introduce the components of this special issue: the first section, Reflections, presents short first-person accounts by sex worker activists, advocates, and scholars regarding a critical keyword they have worked with or resisted. The second section...

...Nicole Archer; Rachel Schreiber Abstract Over the last two decades, red umbrellas have increasingly appeared in campaigns to end violence against sex workers, oppose harmful legislation, advocate for decriminalization, commemorate lost community members, and broadly express sex worker pride...

... neoliberal cultural, tourism-focused, and consumer-driven urban development and merged it with Jacobs's theories in order to cast himself as a key public advocate for “creative-class” planning with only marginal success and even less accountability. Despite popular and scholarly critiques of the creative...

... vision and social programs of woman’s rights advocates and those of their peers active in other social reform campaigns. The vast majority of women who strove for social change shared a number of characteristics and experiences. In broad terms, woman’s rights advocates and other female...