Saying no to power : autobiography of a 20th century activist and thinker / William Mandel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, CA : Creative Arts Book Company, 1999.Description: xi, 651 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0887392865
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.53/2092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • E 184 .37 .M36 A3 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction by Howard Zinn -- 1. Stickball and belly-whopping -- 2. Kid power in the New York schools - 3. Affirmative Action University: Moscow -- 4. Education terminated: life begins -- 5. A professional revolutionary -- 6. Being red in Ohio -- 7. Eve of World War II -- 8. The war at home -- 9. William Faulkner couldn't get in -- 10. Fire-fog -- 11. Cold war: which side are you on? -- 12. America goes nuts -- 13. They shall not pass -- 14. The pits -- 15. That desert year -- 16. One on one with Sen. Joe McCarthy -- 17. We bury the Rosenbergs -- 18. Berkeley was not the Bronx -- 19. "Honorable beaters of children" -- 20. Traveling gadfly and diplomat -- 21. "Don't trust anyone over 30" -- 22. After the storm -- 23. Being me -- 24. Eating babies -- 25. Battle for the airwaves -- 26. "If I were Gorbachev" -- 27. Parting with illusions -- 28. Not yet sunset -- 29. Siberia, free radio, Mumia, and Kosovo
Summary: "Must greed, violence, racism and sexism forever be driving forces in society, or is an alternative possible? Are they inherent features in capitalism, or just very bad beliefs and practices, which people of good will can ultimately overcome? These questions have long challenged thinking people. Capitalism, though unstable, remains dominant in most of the world. SAYING NO TO POWER(Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999) is William Mandel's account of over seventy years of activism for social justice within the pre-eminent capitalist power on earth. I found Mandel's account an enthralling read. I first heard of Mandel when seeing OPERATION ABOLITION, a propaganda movie created by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to defend itself against public protests. A talented speaker, Mandel told the committee and the world, that he would simply not cooperate with its investigations into legal political activity. His words echo to this day, and can still be heard on Mande l'swebsite. Such public defiance contributed to the ultimate demise of HUAC....." - from review by Walter Lippmann, Change-Links newspaper, June 2001
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Introduction by Howard Zinn -- 1. Stickball and belly-whopping -- 2. Kid power in the New York schools - 3. Affirmative Action University: Moscow -- 4. Education terminated: life begins -- 5. A professional revolutionary -- 6. Being red in Ohio -- 7. Eve of World War II -- 8. The war at home -- 9. William Faulkner couldn't get in -- 10. Fire-fog -- 11. Cold war: which side are you on? -- 12. America goes nuts -- 13. They shall not pass -- 14. The pits -- 15. That desert year -- 16. One on one with Sen. Joe McCarthy -- 17. We bury the Rosenbergs -- 18. Berkeley was not the Bronx -- 19. "Honorable beaters of children" -- 20. Traveling gadfly and diplomat -- 21. "Don't trust anyone over 30" -- 22. After the storm -- 23. Being me -- 24. Eating babies -- 25. Battle for the airwaves -- 26. "If I were Gorbachev" -- 27. Parting with illusions -- 28. Not yet sunset -- 29. Siberia, free radio, Mumia, and Kosovo

"Must greed, violence, racism and sexism forever be driving forces in society, or is an alternative possible? Are they inherent features in capitalism, or just very bad beliefs and practices, which people of good will can ultimately overcome? These questions have long challenged thinking people.

Capitalism, though unstable, remains dominant in most of the world. SAYING NO TO POWER(Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999) is William Mandel's account of over seventy years of activism for social justice within the pre-eminent capitalist power on earth. I found Mandel's account an enthralling read.

I first heard of Mandel when seeing OPERATION ABOLITION, a propaganda movie created by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to defend itself against public protests. A talented speaker, Mandel told the committee and the world, that he would simply not cooperate with its investigations into legal political activity. His words echo to this day, and can still be heard on Mande l'swebsite. Such public defiance contributed to the ultimate demise of HUAC....." - from review by Walter Lippmann, Change-Links newspaper, June 2001

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