Author: Michael D,, Michael Linick, aka "Strider" Publisher: ISBN: 9781480012806 Category : Languages : en Pages : 206
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The stories that unfold on the pages of this book, my memoirs, are absolutely true. They include several cases I handled as an Oregon attorney [from 1976 - 1997], interspersed with chapters of my involvement with the Rainbow Family/Gatherings and other anecdotal stories. I believe the reader will find some chapters compelling, others fun and humorous. I describe the non-law related chapters of this book as having some Jack Kerouac's On the Road, a bit of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with a dash of Carlos Castaneda.Chapters:1 - My First Acid Trip2 - Kathy B., The Toughest Chapter Of My Life3 - Panama Red, Squeaky Fromme, And Huge Indians With Pool Cues4 - Going To The Rescue Of A Damsel In Distress5 - Home Delivery Of The Los Angeles Times6 - The Story Of Goldie7 - The Story Of Goldie - Part Two8 - Life On The Road As A Rainbow Warrior9 - The Total Eclipse Of The Sun10 - Life On The Streets Of San Francisco11 - The Grateful Deal, A Former Security Guard, And Magic Mushrooms12 - Smoking A Joint In Jail13 - "I Don't Have To Do That! I'm Not On Trial Here!"14 - How I Won A .27% Blood Alcohol DUII Case15 - Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair16 - Throwing My Hat Into The Political Ring17 - The White Bird Clinic Case18 - Here's To You, Judge Merten19 - The Grandparents Rights Case20 - United States v. Linick, The Rainbow Permit Case21 - More Rainbow Adventures22 - Serendipity At Its Best23 - Marijuana Is My Medicine24 - My Final Thoughts
Author: Gilbert Baker Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1641601531 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker's Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco's Gay Liberation Day parade. Baker had no idea his creation would become an international emblem of freedom, forever cementing his place and importance in helping to define the modern LGBTQ+ movement. Rainbow Warrior is Baker's passionate personal chronicle, from a repressive childhood in 1950s Kansas to a harrowing stint in the US Army, and finally his arrival in San Francisco, where he bloomed as both a visual artist and social justice activist. His fascinating story weaves through the early years of the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights, where he worked closely with Milk, Cleve Jones, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Baker continued his flag-making, street theater and activism through the Reagan years and the AIDS crisis. And in 1994, Baker spearheaded the effort to fabricate a mile-long Rainbow Flag—at the time, the world's longest—to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. Gilbert and parade organizers battled with the newly elected Mayor Giuliani for the right to carry it up Fifth Avenue, past St. Patrick's Cathedral. Today, the Rainbow Flag has become a worldwide symbol of LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusiveness, and its rainbow hues have illuminated landmarks from the White House to the Eiffel Tower to the Sydney Opera House. Gilbert Baker often called himself the "Gay Betsy Ross," and readers of his colorful, irreverent and deeply personal memoir will find it difficult to disagree.
Author: Colin Amery Publisher: ISBN: Category : Lawyers Languages : en Pages : 252
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From a stint in Berlin spying on the Russians to prosecution lawyer in the Rainbow Warrior bombers court case, Colin Amery, sometimes likened to Rumpole, has lead an entertaining life. In this carefully woven and deeply introspective memoir, Colin Amery reveals much of his complex personality in a tantalizing trail of his travels, adventures and eventual return to the legal profession at the age of fifty.
Author: Martin Garbus Publisher: Atheneum Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 350
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In this memoir Garbus, a human rights activist and trial attorney, celebrates the lives of men who have shown inexhaustible moral courage in the face of persecution for expressing their ideas. South African poet Breton Breytonbach, Soviet dissidents Anatoly Scharansky and Andrei Sakharov, and supporters of former Chilean president Allende were all prosecuted in ``show trials.'' The trials were meant to prove that the government in power was a land of laws, but instead showed the government's disdain for human rights. Garbus also discusses political dissent in the United States, and the way, he believes, our government has used the catch-phrase ``national security'' to try to limit free speech. Highly recommended. Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1987 Cahners Business Information.
Author: Berry Fong-Chung Hsu Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9780873328456 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 310
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The future of the Common Law judicial system in Hong Kong depends on the perceptions of it by Hong Kong's Chinese population, judicial developments prior to July 1, 1997, when Hong Kong passes from British to Chinese control, and the Basic Law. These critical issues are addressed in this book.
Author: Mark Weston Janis Publisher: Aspen Publishing ISBN: 1543831141 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 426
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International Law is a concise paperback that is an ideal student companion guide to any law school casebook on international law. Clearly written and thoughtfully organized around three key concepts, this text orients students in the basics of international law while providing broad coverage of contemporary public policy issues shaping international relations.
Author: Gary Shteyngart Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0679643753 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 369
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning—for food, for acceptance, for words—desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel, Lenin and His Magical Goose, and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page. In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor’s life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America—a country Igor viewed as the enemy. Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. Shteyngart’s loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer or at least a “conscientious toiler” on Wall Street, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka—Little Failure—which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly. As a result, Shteyngart operated on a theory that he would fail at everything he tried. At being a writer, at being a boyfriend, and, most important, at being a worthwhile human being. Swinging between a Soviet home life and American aspirations, Shteyngart found himself living in two contradictory worlds, all the while wishing that he could find a real home in one. And somebody to love him. And somebody to lend him sixty-nine cents for a McDonald’s hamburger. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart’s prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . bruisingly funny.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author: Valarie Kaur Publisher: One World ISBN: 0525509097 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 418
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An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation. Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey—as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world; as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11; as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantánamo Bay; as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks; and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with police violence and sexual assault. Drawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists, and activists, Kaur reclaims love as an active, public, and revolutionary force that creates new possibilities for ourselves, our communities, and our world. See No Stranger helps us imagine new ways of being with each other—and with ourselves—so that together we can begin to build the world we want to see.
Author: Michael D,, Michael Linick, aka "Strider"
Author: Gilbert Baker
Author: Colin Amery
Author: David Williamson
Author: Martin Garbus
Author: Berry Fong-Chung Hsu
Author: Mark Weston Janis
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Author: Gary Shteyngart
Author: Valarie Kaur