Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring LandmarksChicago Review Press, 2008 - 432 pages A Selection of the Progressive Book ClubFrom the sites of famous sit-ins, marches, and strikes to the locales of events that led to landmark Supreme Court decisions, this inspiring travel guide journeys to more than 400 of the places in the United States that are important to progressive politics. Organized by state, it includes the stories of hundreds of women and men of action who, through creativity and hard work, changed American society for the better. Visit the battlegrounds and celebrate the victories of civil libertarians, feminists, African Americans, gays, lesbians, environmentalists, labor organizers, and media activists. Make a stop at the home of abolitionists Levi and Catharine Coffin, Grand Central Station on the Underground Railroad. Check out Alice's Restaurant Church, the namesake of Arlo Guthrie's song protesting the draft. Learn about the first women's convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls at the Women's Hall of Fame. See the site of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago where laborers protested working conditions. Join the many people who pay homage at the grave site of Leonard Matlovich, the gay Vietnam War veteran who fought the U.S. military--and won--when he was wrongfully discharged for homosexuality. Each entry features a listing of books and websites for further information, making this an essential lefty resource. For liberal-minded adventurous travelers, educational family vacationers, and progressives who want to know their history, this book will inspire them to do more than just cast a vote. |
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... federal authorities to search library and bookstore records of patrons and cus- tomers without their knowledge and without a court order. What's more, when librarians (or bookstore owners) are served with a National Security Letter (NSL) ...
... Federal Street ) , near the Bowdoin College campus where her husband Calvin was a professor , and fired off the final chapter first . God may have dictated the book , but the stories were all Stowe's , collected over the first four ...
... federal office, from 1933 to 1945, Perkins oversaw the New Deal's progres- sive expansion of unemployment relief, union rights, the raising of the minimum wage, the establishment Every man and woman in America who works at a living wage ...
... into matters so funda- mentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child . -Justice William Brennan , in Eisenstadt v . Baird , 1972 口 Keith McHenry and Food Not Bombs Federal Reserve Bank 18 New England.
... Federal Reserve Bank , 600 Atlantic Avenue , Boston , MA 02210 Food Not Bombs ( FNB ) began more as a " not bombs " organization than a " food " organization . Keith McHenry and others who were active in the 1970s movement against ...
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