Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American RevolutionariesIn Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation. As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the “system” is in disorder—if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always as clear. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation. |
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... citizens of some of the poorest and youngest democracies on the planet. Others were angrier than ever and were ... citizen leadership for a new American Revolution. There are concrete laws we must pass to restore liberty and actions we ...
... citizens of some of the poorest and youngest democracies on the planet. Others were angrier than ever and were ... citizen leadership for a new American Revolution. There are concrete laws we must pass to restore liberty and actions we ...
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... citizens of a republic; we can have a Constitution and a Congress; but if we, the people, have fallen asleep to the meaning of the Constitution and to the radical implications of representative and direct democracy, then we aren't ...
... citizens of a republic; we can have a Constitution and a Congress; but if we, the people, have fallen asleep to the meaning of the Constitution and to the radical implications of representative and direct democracy, then we aren't ...
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... citizens to reclaim the American Revolution above any other. And unfortunately for everyone across the political spectrum, the religious right, especially during the 1970s and 1980s, redefined patriotism in ways that would have appalled ...
... citizens to reclaim the American Revolution above any other. And unfortunately for everyone across the political spectrum, the religious right, especially during the 1970s and 1980s, redefined patriotism in ways that would have appalled ...
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... citizens, or waging illegal wars against nations not at war with us. What if an American president told us to our faces that some of the hostility directed toward us now from the Middle East derives from our own policies, such as ...
... citizens, or waging illegal wars against nations not at war with us. What if an American president told us to our faces that some of the hostility directed toward us now from the Middle East derives from our own policies, such as ...
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... citizen would need to take command of the nation again. As I did so, to my dismay, I hit a series of walls. I had assumed that 2000–2008 was the period when liberty was under special assault. But on my travels, citizens warned me that ...
... citizen would need to take command of the nation again. As I did so, to my dismay, I hit a series of walls. I had assumed that 2000–2008 was the period when liberty was under special assault. But on my travels, citizens warned me that ...
Contents
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We are required to speak freely | 91 |
We Have a Duty to rebel Continually | 105 |
ordinary People are supposed | 125 |
americans Cherish the rule of Law | 141 |
a New american revolution | 209 |
DriviNG CHaNGe | 215 |
become the Media yourself | 221 |
Produce New Media | 235 |
Protest | 245 |
staging a Protest | 251 |
How to speak in Any Public Context | 260 |
organize a town Hall Meeting | 271 |
america establishes No God | 157 |
americans Deliberate with | 173 |
Liberty is Universal america Cannot | 189 |
Become the leaders of America | 283 |
CreAte orCHANge | 293 |
organize a National HearingAnnette warren | 300 |
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