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This is not a burial, it's a resurrection [videorecording] by Mda, Zakes,writer of accompanying material.(CARDINAL)520942; Mhlongo, Mary Twala,actor.; Mofokeng, Jerry,actor.; Mosese, Lemohang Jeremiah,1980-film director.; Ndebele, Makhaola,actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269;
Mary Twala Mhlongo, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele.With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese's visionary, much-lauded This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is as timeless and elemental as the land itself.Not rated. DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.40:1); 5.1 surround.Title from disc surface.
Subjects: Burial; Diplomatic protests; Mothers and sons;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A-DO. by Amano, Jaku,author,illustrator.; Greenway, Max,translator.; Christie, Phil(Letterer),letterer.(CARDINAL)430881; Kodansha USA, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)610835;
"THE HOLY ONE'S TOUCH. Colonel Tsujiura and his soldiers narrowly escaped the laboratory thanks to Doctor Shiga's sacrifice, and Eito finally snapped out of his trance after learning a chilling truth: Most test subjects die a few years after being implanted with the seed. As Eito and the other survivors swear vengeance on the project's mastermind, Ewan and Riko become ever more deeply entangled with the cult of Shinra. Can the A-DO ever break free of the men behind the curtain?"--Back cover.Rated: Older Teen 16+.
Subjects: Science fiction comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Manga.; Emigration and immigration; Xenophobia; Diplomatic protests; Ability; Graphic novels;
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Power systems [audio-enabled device] : conversations on global democratic uprisings and the new challenges to U.S. empire by Chomsky, Noam,author. (CARDINAL)145847; Barsamian, David,interviewer.(CARDINAL)351428;
Includes one AAA battery required for listening.Read by the author and David Barsamian.In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores our most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the growing threats to the environment and peace. This latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of listeners, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Arab Spring, 2010- ; Democratization; Diplomatic relations.; Occupy movement; Protest movements; Revolution;
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The rise of nuclear Iran : how Tehran defies the West / by Gold, Dore.(CARDINAL)757194;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-378) and index.Examines Iran's pursuit of nuclear power in defiance of the United Nations and protests from the Western world, explaining why diplomatic engagement with Iran has never worked and outlining the regime's radical aspirations for the Middle East.
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; Nuclear energy; Nuclear weapons;
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Hosea Williams [sound recording] : a lifetime of defiance and protest / by Rice, Rolundus,Author.; Powell, Arnell,Narrator.;
When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us.In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words and argues that Williams's activism in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was of central importance to the success of the larger civil rights movement. Rice traces Williams's journey from a local activist in Georgia to a national leader and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants. He helped plan the Selma-to-Montgomery march and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.Williams played the role of enforcer in SCLC, always ready to deploy what he called his arsenal of agitation. While his hard-charging tactics may have seemed out of step with the more diplomatic approach of other SCLC leaders, Rice suggests that it was precisely this contrast in styles that made the organization so successful. Rice also follows Williams's career after King's assassination, as Williams moved into local Atlanta politics. While his style made him loved by some and hated by others, readers will come to appreciate the central role that Williams played in the most successful nonviolent revolution in American history.
Subjects: Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000; Biography; Civil rights; History; Political science;
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Moral contagion : Black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America / by Schoeppner, Michael A.,author.(CARDINAL)888354;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.The Atlantic's dangerous undercurrents -- Containing a moral contagion, 1822-1829 -- The contagion spreads, 1829-1833 -- Confronting a pandemic, 1834-1842 -- "Foreign" emissaries and rights discourse, 1842-1847 -- Sacrificing Black citizenship, 1848-1859 -- Black sailors, their communities, and the fight for citizenship."Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a "moral contagion" of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by antebellum free people of color, by people afflicted with "moral contagion.""-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Enslaved persons; Free African Americans; Free Black people; Merchant mariners, Black; Diplomacy;
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Big business in China : Sino-foreign rivalry in the cigarette industry, 1890-1930 / by Cochran, Sherman,1940-(CARDINAL)147308;
Bibliography: pages 297-318.This is the first major study in Chinese business history based largely on business's own records. It focuses on the battle for the cigarette market in early twentieth-century China between the British-American Tobacco Company, based in New York and London, and its leading Chinese rival, Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, whose headquarters were in Hong Kong and Shanghai. From its founding in 1902, the British-American Tobacco Company maintained a lucrative monopoly of the market until 1915, when Nanyang entered China and extended its operations into the country's major markets despite the use of aggressive tactics against it. Both companies grew rapidly during the 1920s, and competition between them reached its peak, but by 1930 Nanyang weakened, bringing an end to serious commercial rivalry. Though less competitive, both companies continued to trade in China until their Sino-foreign rivalry ended altogether with the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. Debate over international commercial rivalries has often been conducted broadly in terms of imperialist exploitation and economic nationalism. This study shows the usefulness and limitations of these terms for historical purposes and contributes to the separate but related debate over the significance of entrepreneurial innovation in Chinese economic history. By analyzing the foreign Chinese companies' business practices and by describing their involvement in diplomatic incidents, boycotts, strikes, student protests, relations with peasant tobacco growers, dealings with the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party, and a host of other activities, the author brings to light the roles that big businesses played not only in China's economy but also in its politics, society, and foreign affairs.
Subjects: Cigarette industry;
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Civil rights, 1960-63; the Negro campaign to win equal rights and opportunities in the United States / by Facts on File, Inc.(CARDINAL)139256;
Civil Rights 1960-63 -- I. 1960 : The sit-in movement -- Rights legislation -- Voting bias fought -- School integration -- Social-economic developments -- II. 1961 : Freedom riders -- Diplomats meet bias -- Sit-in movement -- School desegregation -- Voting bias fought -- Employment action -- Legislation -- Other developments -- III. 1962 : University of Mississippi & Meredith -- Southern school desegregation -- Northern schools accused -- Vote rights struggle -- Employment & union practices -- Housing discrimination -- Other developments -- IV. 1963 : March on Washington -- Legislation blocked -- Violence in Birmingham -- Southern equality movement -- Northern protests -- School & college desegregation -- Other developments.
Subjects: African Americans;
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Independence Square : a novel / by Miller, Andrew,1974-author.(CARDINAL)551576;
Once a senior diplomat in Kiev, Simon Davey lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is traveling on the Tube when he sees her. . . . This woman, Olesya, is the person Simon holds responsible for his downfall. He first met her on an icy night during the protests on Independence Square. Full of hope and idealism, Olesya could not know what a crucial role she would play in the dangerous times ahead--and in Simon's fate. Or what compromises she would have to make to protect her family. When Simon decides to follow Olesya, he finds himself plunged back into the dramatic days which changed his life forever. And he begins to see that her past has not been what he thought it was, and neither has his own.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Diplomats; Corruption; Betrayal;
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Frontier rebels : the fight for independence in the American west, 1765-1776 / by Spero, Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)783820;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-258) and index."The untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution. In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another issue: Indian relations. When British officials launched a risky diplomatic expedition into the American interior to open trade with the Indian warrior Pontiac, the Black Boys formed to stop it. Distrustful of Native neighbors and suspicious of imperial aims, the Black Boys led an uprising that threatened the future of Britain's empire. Clashing with unscrupulous traders, daring diplomats, Native warriors, and imperious British officials, the Black Boys evolved into an organized political movement that resisted the Crown years before the Declaration of Independence. A fast-paced read examining an overlooked conflict, Frontier Rebels brings to life a forgotten cast of characters and sheds new light on the origins of American Independence"--Preface: the crisis of empire -- Setting the stage -- The mission --The convoy departs -- The attack -- Transformation -- Crisis -- Independence -- The elusive peace -- Disintegration -- Imperial failure -- Revolution -- Epilogue: legacies
Subjects: Croghan, George, 1720?-1782.; Insurgency; Frontier and pioneer life; Ottowa Indians;
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