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Description:In his famous history series A History of the English Speaking Peoples Winston Churchill seemed to think that history was about wars and made by great leaders.Fight the Power! begs to differ and instead presents A Visual History of Protest Amongst the English Speaking Peoples.Today’s occupy movements are part of a long history of struggle. This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires. When the 99% have stood up to combat, exploitation and abuse or in pursuit of freedom of action and a better life. In other words, to show times in history, just like today, when people have struggled forward to FIGHT THE POWER!This comic book covers 14 cases of such struggle over the last 200 years and in several English speaking countries including not just the US and UK but Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, India and Jamaica.The Luddites and Swing Riots (1811-1832)The Battle of Peterloo (1819)Colonial Rebellions (1837-1865)Irish Rebellions (1791-1922)The Suffragettes (1903-1918)The Australian General Strike (1917)The Boston Police Strike (1919)The UK General Strike and the Battle of George Square (1918 & 1926)The Battle of Toledo (1934)Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott (1955-1956)The Trial of Nelson Mandela (1964)Fragging (1969-1971)The Poll Tax Riots (1989-1991)Occupy (2011-)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fight the Power. To get started finding Fight the Power, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: New Internationalist

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1780261225

Description: In his famous history series A History of the English Speaking Peoples Winston Churchill seemed to think that history was about wars and made by great leaders.Fight the Power! begs to differ and instead presents A Visual History of Protest Amongst the English Speaking Peoples.Today’s occupy movements are part of a long history of struggle. This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires. When the 99% have stood up to combat, exploitation and abuse or in pursuit of freedom of action and a better life. In other words, to show times in history, just like today, when people have struggled forward to FIGHT THE POWER!This comic book covers 14 cases of such struggle over the last 200 years and in several English speaking countries including not just the US and UK but Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, India and Jamaica.The Luddites and Swing Riots (1811-1832)The Battle of Peterloo (1819)Colonial Rebellions (1837-1865)Irish Rebellions (1791-1922)The Suffragettes (1903-1918)The Australian General Strike (1917)The Boston Police Strike (1919)The UK General Strike and the Battle of George Square (1918 & 1926)The Battle of Toledo (1934)Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott (1955-1956)The Trial of Nelson Mandela (1964)Fragging (1969-1971)The Poll Tax Riots (1989-1991)Occupy (2011-)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fight the Power. To get started finding Fight the Power, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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