No More Heroes (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Jordan Flaherty | knygos.lt

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The left is full of missionaries. Privileged in terms of race, sex, or class, these do-gooders set out to save the poor and oppressed in ways that make matters worse and also serve to bolster the their own social power. They are driven by a desire for justice, but they don't want to listen to those they are ostensibly rescuing.

Seasoned journalist Jordan Flaherty brings us inside the dark and politically twisted mind of the savior. Starting with Brandon Darby, an FBI informant whose rise within radical circles showed how movements are susceptible to a particular style of political heroism, Flaherty introduces us to would-be liberators and the damage they cause. We meet the young, idealistic, and mostly white people who join Teach For America and displace unionized African American teachers. We hear anti-sex-trafficking crusaders and the marginalized women their programs put behind bars. We see Red Cross coffers grow at the expense of local communities who consistently do more with less. And we also see a growing response to these dynamics: grassroots and street-based uprisings like those in Ferguson, Missouri, creating accountable movements focused on real, systemic change.

Insightful and unsparing, No More Heroes is an indispensible tool for social justice activists.

Jordan Flaherty, executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show, is an award-winning journalist who has appeared on television and radio shows including Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, and News and Notes on NPR. He is author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six.