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Love Changes Things

Even in the World of Politics

By: Caroline Cottom PhD

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Love Changes Things

Even in the World of Politics

By: Caroline Cottom PhD

In the summer of 1983, Caroline was recovering from her thirty-two-year-old sisters untimely death, working as a consultant in rural Tennessee, and writing her sisters story. Then, in one startling moment, she was struck by lightning. Its message? Develop a relationship with Al Gore, Jr, then a US congressman, for the purpose of ending the threat of nuclear war. Although she had had little political experience, Caroline heeded the message of the lightning bolt, albeit reluctantly. In time, she moved her family to Washington, DC, where she could work to affect policy. In an era in which the US and Soviet Union had 50,000 nuclear weapons between them, she found herself surrounded by politicians who wanted to build even more. Hundreds of dreams and the voice of Spirit led Caroline ever deeper into the political arena, urging her to build relationships based on love and respect with members of Congress and the Supreme Soviet, defense analysts, peace activists, scientists, and vice presidents of both the United States and the USSR. Love Changes Things is a David and Goliath story where David included millions of people working to end nuclear test explosions worldwide. In this extraordinary story, what tamed the dragon was lovean ingredient that is often missing in social change work, but essential to creating a world at peace. The premise is simple, and the tools are easy to use.

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1469781077

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Love Changes Things

Even in the World of Politics

By: Caroline Cottom, PhD,Caroline Cottom

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Love Changes Things

Even in the World of Politics

By: Caroline Cottom, PhD,Caroline Cottom

In the summer of 1983, Caroline was recovering from her thirty-two-year-old sister's untimely death, working as a consultant in rural Tennessee, and writing her sister's story. Then, in one startling moment, she was struck by lightning. Its message? Develop a relationship with Al Gore, Jr, then a US congressman, for the purpose of ending the threat of nuclear war. Although she had had little political experience, Caroline heeded the message of the lightning bolt, albeit reluctantly. In time, she moved her family to Washington, DC, where she could work to affect policy. In an era in which the US and Soviet Union had 50,000 nuclear weapons between them, she found herself surrounded by politicians who wanted to build even more. Hundreds of dreams and the voice of Spirit led Caroline ever deeper into the political arena, urging her to build relationships based on love and respect with members of Congress and the Supreme Soviet, defense analysts, peace activists, scientists, and vice presidents of both the United States and the USSR. Love Changes Things is a David and Goliath story where "David" included millions of people working to end nuclear test explosions worldwide. In this extraordinary story, what tamed the dragon was love-an ingredient that is often missing in social change work, but essential to creating a world at peace. The premise is simple, and the tools are easy to use.

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1469781069

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Stand Your Ground

A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense

By: Caroline Light

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Stand Your Ground

A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense

By: Caroline Light

A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.

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Beacon Press

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0807064661

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9780807064665

The Banker Ladies

Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks

By: Caroline Shenaz Hossein

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The Banker Ladies

Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks

By: Caroline Shenaz Hossein

All over the world, Black and racialized women engage in the solidarity economy through what is known as mutual aid financing. Formally referred to as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), these institutions are purposefully informal to support the women’s livelihoods and social needs, and they act to reject tiered forms of neo-liberal development. The Banker Ladies – a term coined by women in the Black diaspora – are individuals that voluntarily organize ROSCAs for self-sufficiency and are intentional in their politicized economic co-operation to counter business exclusion. Caroline Shenaz Hossein reveals how Black women redefine the banking co-operative sector to be inclusive of informal institutions that are democratic and focused on group consensus, and which build an activist form of economic co-operation that is intent on making social profitability the norm. The book examines the ways in which diasporic Black women, who organize mutual aid, receive little to no attention. Unapologetically biased towards a group of women who have been purposely sidelined and put down for what they do, The Banker Ladies highlights how, in order to educate oneself about their contributions to politics and economics, it is imperative to listen to the voices of hundreds of Black women in charge of financial services for their communities.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487517831

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9781487517830

Detecting the Nation

Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture

By: Caroline Reitz

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Detecting the Nation

Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture

By: Caroline Reitz

In Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a minor domestic genre that reinforces a distinction between metropolitan center and imperial periphery. Rather, Reitz argues, nineteenth-century detective fiction helped transform the concept of an island kingdom to that of a sprawling empire; detective fiction placed imperialism at the center of English identity by recasting what had been the suspiciously un-English figure of the turn-of-the-century detective as the very embodiment of both English principles and imperial authority. She supports this claim through reading such masters of the genre as Godwin, Dickens, Collins, and Doyle in relation to narratives of crime and empire such as James Mill's History of British India, narratives about Thuggee, and selected writings of Kipling and Buchan. Detective fiction and writings more specifically related to the imperial project, such as political tracts and adventure stories, were inextricably interrelated during this time.

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150

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209823

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9780814209820

The Isle of Is

A Guide to Awakening

By: Caroline Cottom,Thom Cronkhite

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The Isle of Is

A Guide to Awakening

By: Caroline Cottom,Thom Cronkhite

Set on a mythical island, The Isle of Is charts a journey of discovery in which the reader is the main character in the story of their own awakening. Throughout, international spiritual teachers Thom Cronkhite and Caroline Cottom PhD lead the reader into a place of peace, joy, and connection to all things - the experience of awakening to who and what they really are. This brilliantly creative book + CD is suited for a wide range of spiritual seekers, regardless of religion, gender, level of spiritual development, or age. Most striking is the metaphor of the isalnd. With its fantastic creatures, glorious scenery, and delightful story, The Isle of Is engages the senses, heart, and imagination. The book fills a need for spiritual material families can explore together. Also ideal for small group study, it cuts across religious lines as a simple tool for reaching universal truths.

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9829800415

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Love Changes Things

Love Changes Things

Love Changes Things

Love Changes Things

Stand Your Ground

Stand Your Ground

The Banker Ladies

The Banker Ladies

Detecting the Nation

Detecting the Nation

The Isle of Is

The Isle of Is

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