Let's Use Free Speech to Subvert
Title | Let's Use Free Speech to Subvert PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bushard |
Publisher | Free Press Media Press Inc. |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2014-12-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Subversion changes lives for the better. So why aren't you subverting? If it's because you don't know how, then you might find some practical tips in this short work. 26 pages.
Let's Use Free Speech to Achieve Working Class Success
Title | Let's Use Free Speech to Achieve Working Class Success PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bushard |
Publisher | Free Press Media Press |
Pages | 28 |
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Genre | Business & Economics |
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Some people vilify the working class But we should love the working class You can get by or you can thrive You can embrace mediocrity or you can seize excellence Why just get by when life offers more? Seize working class excellence, today So you can beam with working class pride 28 pages.
Let's Use Free Speech to Unionize Accenture and Other Companies
Title | Let's Use Free Speech to Unionize Accenture and Other Companies PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bushard |
Publisher | Free Press Media Press |
Pages | 35 |
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Genre | Political Science |
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Accenture doesn't pay its call center workers enough, so unions should intervene. This work discusses the problems of Accenture type leadership as well as advocates for the political and philosophical need for the unionization solution. Andrew Bushard filed a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unfair labor charge against his employer Accenture. The NLRB agent "found merit" in his charge, so the NLRB prosecuted Accenture. Accenture capitulated and agreed to a settlement, so Andrew won the case. Victory! Cover illustration by rifatnaim.
Let's Use Free Speech to Start a New Union
Title | Let's Use Free Speech to Start a New Union PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bushard |
Publisher | Free Press Media Press Inc. |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2015-09-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
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With so many labor unions already existing, why do we need a new union? Simply, because these unions don't serve all qualified people, we need a new union that fills in the gaps. Andrew Bushard filed a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unfair labor charge against his employer Accenture. The NLRB agent "found merit" in his charge, so the NLRB prosecuted Accenture. Accenture capitulated and agreed to a settlement, so Andrew won the case. Victory! Cover illustration by rifatnaim.
Let's Use Free Speech to Expose the Peace Corps
Title | Let's Use Free Speech to Expose the Peace Corps PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bushard |
Publisher | Free Press Media Press |
Pages | 26 |
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Genre | Political Science |
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Do you admire the Peace Corps? If so, this work will have you question your assumptions. You will see the Peace Corps' dark side. 26 pages; 25 poems
Transforming Free Speech
Title | Transforming Free Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Graber |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0520913132 |
Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. Mark A. Graber asserts that in the past, broader political visions inspired libertarian interpretations of the First Amendment. In reexamining the philosophical and jurisprudential foundations of the defense of expression rights from the Civil War to the present, he exposes the monolithic free-speech tradition as a myth. Instead of one conception of the system of free expression, two emerge: the conservative libertarian tradition that dominated discourse from the Civil War until World War I, and the civil libertarian tradition that dominates later twentieth-century argument. The essence of the current perception of the American free-speech tradition derives from the writings of Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (1885-1957), the progressive jurist most responsible for the modern interpretation of the First Amendment. His interpretation, however, deliberately obscured earlier libertarian arguments linking liberty of speech with liberty of property. Moreover, Chafee stunted the development of a more radical interpretation of expression rights that would give citizens the resources and independence necessary for the effective exercise of free speech. Instead, Chafee maintained that the right to political and social commentary could be protected independent of material inequalities that might restrict access to the marketplace of ideas. His influence enfeebled expression rights in a world where their exercise depends increasingly on economic power. Untangling the libertarian legacy, Graber points out the disjunction in the libertarian tradition to show that free-speech rights, having once been transformed, can be transformed again. Well-conceived and original in perspective, Transforming Free Speech will interest political theorists, students of government, and anyone interested in the origins of the free-speech tradition in the United States.
The Fight for Free Speech
Title | The Fight for Free Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Rosenberg |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2023-05-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1479825913 |
A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of their First Amendment rights. The Fight for Free Speech answers this call with an accessible, engaging user’s guide to free speech. Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question—from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee’s expletives, from Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels— and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers. Together these fascinating stories create a practical framework for understanding where our free speech protections originated and how they can develop in the future. As people on all sides of the political spectrum are demanding their right to speak and be heard, The Fight for Free Speech is a handbook for combating authoritarianism, protecting our democracy, and bringing an understanding of free speech law to all.