How to stand up to a dictator : the fight for our future
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Contributors
Clooney, Amal, writer of foreword.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, photographs, portraits, charts ; 24 cm
Status
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
070.92
1 available
070.92
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 070.92 | Checked Out | April 19, 2024 |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 070.92 | On Shelf |
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Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler. Harnessing the emerging power of social media, Rappler crowdsourced breaking news, found pivotal sources and tips, harnessed collective action for climate change, and helped increase voter knowledge and participation in elections. Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every day: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
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