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Title What we do now : standing up for your values in Trump's America / edited by Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2017]
©2017

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Description x, 211 pages ; 21 cm
Summary This collection of essays by progressive leaders suggest actual strategies on how to move forward in resistance to a Trump administration.
Contents Introduction / by Dennis Johnson -- 1. Setting a new liberal agenda. Where do we go from here? / Bernie Sanders ; Remarks to the AFL-CIO Executive Council / Elizabeth Warren ; The Way to stop Trump / David Cole -- 2. Racial justice. Evolving Trump's America into the other America we love / Cornell William Brooks ; White people: what is your plan for the Trump presidency? / Brittany Packnett -- 3. Immigration. We are all emigrants / Ilhan Omar ; Undocumented and #HereToStay / Cristina Jiménez -- 4. Women's rights. Welcome to the resistance! / Gloria Steinem ; Now is the time to double down on women's leadership / Ilyse Hogue -- 5. Civil liberties. We will defend the Constitution against President Trump / Anthony D. Romero ; How to combat Donald Trump's dangerous threats to a free press / Trevor Timm -- 6. Climate change. Donald Trump is betting against all odds on climate change / Bill McKibben ; Protecting our planet / Michael Brune -- 7. Religious freedom. The Ultimate wake-up call / Linda Sarsour ; Post-election sermon / Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum ; How our fear can be turned into a powerful movement / M. Dove Kent -- 8. Economics. Thoughts for the horrified / Paul Krugman ; The First 100 days resistance agenda / Robert B. Reich ; How to make blue states blue again / John R. MacArthur -- 9. LGBTQ rights. You are not alone / Rea Carey ; Fighting forward / Mara Keisling -- 10. Media. Media malpractice 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel ; On polls, the media, and rebuilding the Democratic Party / Allan J. Lichtman ; The Braindead megaphone / George Saunders -- 11. Reframing the message. What the media can do / George Lakoff ; Artists and social justice 2016-2020 / Nato Thompson -- Coda. None of the old rules apply: travels through post-election America / Dave Eggers.
Subject Trump, Donald, 1946-
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Political participation -- United States.
Liberals -- Political activity -- United States.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- Political activity.
Presidents -- U.S -- Election -- 2016.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
Added Author Johnson, Dennis Loy, 1957- editor.
Merians, Valerie, 1961- editor.
ISBN 9781612196596 (softcover)
1612196594 (softcover)
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