Free Download Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7R2VZD4 | 2024 | 10 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 602 MB
Author: Jane F. McAlevey, Abby Lawlor
Narrator: Jane F. McAlevey
Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy. Drawing insights from recent hard-won unionization and contract negotiation fights, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor use lessons from some of the toughest fights today-preparing a durable, all-out strike in a union-hostile environment-to provide a masterclass in participatory social change, indispensable both within and beyond the workplaces where we spend half of our waking lives. In an era of polarization, big lies, and massive legislative setbacks, changemakers in every arena need to learn the skills and lessons honed in pitched battles against experienced and ruthless union busters. Rules to Win By is a book for workers, unionists, racial justice and climate campaigners, academics, policymakers and everyone who wants a more fair and democratic society.

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Free Download Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNQFKLL3 | 2024 | 7 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Andrea Freeman
Narrator: Heni Zoutomou
The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more." Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality.

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Free Download Bernard Edwards, Kevin Hanssen (Narrator), "Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808-1898"
English | ASIN: B0D7QZ1SMD | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:11:00 | 198 MB
On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East. With typical thoroughness, the Royal Navy went further, and took the fight to the enemy, sailing boldly up uncharted rivers and creeks to attack the barracoons where the slaves were assembled ready for shipment.
For much of its long campaign against the evil of slavery, Britain's Navy fought alone and unrecognized. Its enemies were many and formidable. Ranged against it were the African chiefs, who sold their own people into slavery, the Arabs, who rode shotgun on the slave caravans to the coast, and the slave ships of the rest of the world, heavily armed, and prepared to do battle to protect their right to traffic in the forbidden so-called "black ivory."
The war was long and bitter and the cost to the Royal Navy in ships and men heavy, but the result was worthy of the sacrifices made. The abolition of the slave trade led to a scramble for empires and, in place of slaves, Africa began to export cocoa, coffee, timber, palm oil, cotton and ores, all very much in demand in the West.

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Free Download Row the Boat:
A Never-Give-Up Approach to Lead with Enthusiasm and Optimism and Improve Your Team and Culture
Author: Jon Gordon, P. J. Fleck
Narrator: P. J. Fleck
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0D9HPG4ZD | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 2h 17m | 146 MB

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Free Download Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM2M93Y | 2024 | 8 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Brea Baker
Narrator: Brea Baker
Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth. To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment that colonizers set foot on Virginian soil, a centuries-long war was waged, resulting in an existential dilemma: Who owns what on stolen land? Who owns what with stolen labor? To answer these questions, we must confront one of this nation's first sins: stealing, hoarding, and commodifying the land. Research suggests that between 1910 and 1997, Black Americans lost about 90% of their farmland.

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Free Download Rome and the Barbarians [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO5ZFO | M4B@64 kbps | 18h 24m | 541 MB
Lecturer: Kenneth W. Harl
The history of the Romans as they advanced the frontiers of Classical civilization is often told as a story of warfare and conquest - the mighty legions encountering the "barbarians." But this only tells one side of the story.
Who were the Celts, Goths, Huns, and Persians met by the Romans as they marched north and east? What were the political, military, and social institutions that made Rome so stable, allowing its power to be wielded against these different cultures for nearly three centuries? What role did those institutions themselves play in assimilating barbarian peoples?

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Free Download Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1HDQ837 | 2024 | 7 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Heath Brown
Narrator: Rick Adamson
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their transition to the White House in the most unusual of circumstances: a global pandemic, a sitting president violently refusing to accept the results of the election, and a historic racial reckoning all posed profound questions about how they would staff large parts of the government and articulate policy remedies to pressing problems in just eleven weeks. Heath Brown's Roadblocked is a revelatory look at the seventy days between the election and the inauguration with a focus on the ways the Biden-Harris transition team sought help and advice to overcome these obstacles.

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Free Download Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire (Audiobook)
English | June 18, 2024 | ASIN: B0CYD7HJW2 | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 19m | 205 MB
Author: Paula Yoo | Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Paula Yoo's latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles's 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities.
On April 29, 1992, following the acquittal of four police officers charged with the beating and arrest of Rodney King and the earlier killing of teenager Latasha Harlins, the city of Los Angeles erupted in violence. Many of these events were centered on the city's Koreatown, where tensions between the Black and Korean American communities had simmered for years, fueled by economic challenges and redlining and enflamed by sensationalized and racist media. Based on more than 100 personal interviews, Rising from the Ashes follows these events through the eyes and experiences of the families of King, Harlins, shooting victim Edward Jae Song Lee, and dozens of business owners, journalists, police officers, firefighters, activists, and other community members. Deeply researched and thoroughly enjoyable this is a vivid, propulsive, and moving story of a pivotal moment in recent American history that continues to resonate today.

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Free Download Ripple: The Big Effects of Small Behaviour Changes in Business (Audiobook)
English | May 06, 2020 | ASIN: B087YTG43G | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 41m | 136 MB
Authors: Jez Groom, April Vellacott | Narrator: Ian Pringle
How do you get people who work in pig abattoirs to wash their hands? How does painting the walls of a canteen pink make construction workers behave more safely? And how can baby faces spray painted onto shop shutters reduce anti-social behaviour?
Ripple is about how small behaviour changes can have wide-reaching effects in the real world. By applying behavioural science in your working life, you can have positive ripple effects on the world around you.

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Free Download Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWJTMRDS | 2024 | 9 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 523 MB
Author: Geoff White
Narrator: Geoff White
There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. It's normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of high-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types will be enabled. It's time to understand where the water is rising, before it washes over us all. Money laundering has been around for centuries. For as long as people have been stealing money, there's been an industry ready to wash it. But recent tech innovations have created vastly complex new systems for laundering that threaten to overwhelm authorities, destabilise economies and disrupt societies. Ranging from the flamboyant luxury of Dubai hotels to quiet coastal Ireland, from the UK to Nigeria and from Indonesia to North Korea, Rinsed is a truly global relevatory investigation into the new army of innovative launderers ... and the consequences for all of us.

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