Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America by Ratner, Michael

Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781595585400)

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Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America by Ratner, Michael

Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America

$17.95
Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America by Ratner, Michael

Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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"Compelling and useful reading" for activists, protest groups, and individuals, from America's leading constitutional rights group (Booklist).

In the age of terrorism and under the current administration, the United States has become a much more dangerous place--for activists and dissenters, whose First Amendment rights are all too frequently abridged by the government.

In Hell No, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the country's leading public interest law organization, offers a timely report on government attacks on dissent and protest in the United States, along with a readable and essential guide for activists, teachers, grandmothers, and anyone else who wants to oppose government policies and actions. Hell No explores the current situation of attacks upon and criminalization of dissent and protest, from the surveillance of activists to the disruption of demonstrations, from the labeling of protestors as "terrorists," to the jailing of those the government claims are giving "material support" to its perceived enemies. Offering detailed, hands-on advice on everything from "Sneak and Peek" searches to "Can the Government Monitor My Text Messages?" and what to do "If an Agent Knocks," Hell No lays out several key responses that every person should know in order to protect themselves from government surveillance and interference with their rights.

Concluding with the controversial 2008 Mukasey FBI Guidelines, which currently regulate the government's domestic response to dissent, Hell No is an indispensable tool in the effort to give free speech and protest meaning in a post-9/11 world.


Author: Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler
ISBN-10: 1595585400
ISBN-13: 9781595585400
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2011
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2011 pg. 9
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 138
By Michael Ratner
By Michael Ratner
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The Center for Constitutional Rights is an organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Michael Ratner was an attorney and president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He was well known for his human rights activism and the author of numerous books, including The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld and Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America (co-authored with Margaret Ratner Kunstler), both published by The New Press. Margaret Ratner Kunstler is an attorney in private practice. As education director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, she originated the Movement Support Network and authored "If an Agent Knocks." Kunstler is the President of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, a foundation established in 1995 in the memory of her late husband to combat racism in the criminal justice system. She lives in New York City.

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