Outside in: A Political Memoir, Paperback/Libby Davies

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Description For more than four decades, Libby Davies has worked steadfastly for social justice. She became a community organizer in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside at the age of nineteen, later became active in Vancouver municipal politics, and eventually worked her way to become Deputy Leader of the federal New Democratic Party. Davies lays bare the challenges she has faced with candid reflections on her experience as both an insider in the established political world and an outsider working in the activist community on controversial issues such as homelessness, sex workers' rights, and ending drug prohibition. Part memoir, part analysis of the political process, Davies's forty years of work at the intersection of the political process and social movements is both inspirational and comforting for anyone interested in getting involved in the politics and activism today.

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Libby Davies

politiciană canadiană · n. 1953

Libby Davies este o politiciană canadiană din Columbia Britanică. A fost deputată în Parlamentul Canadei pentru circumscripția Vancouver East între 1997 și 2015, lider al grupului parlamentar al Partidului Democrat Nou (NDP) între 2003 și 2011, și vicepreședintă a partidului din 2007 până în 2015.