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August 1, 2006

People's Movements, People's Press
Bob Ostertag
Beacon Press
25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108-2892

0807061646 $23.95 www.beacon.org

People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism Of Social Justice Movements by Bob Ostertag (Associate Professor of Technocultural Studies at University of California, Davis) is an intriguing work on and about the impact of "counterculture journalism". Beginning with the nineteenth century struggles of abolitionist and suffragist newspaper forums and journalist advocacy, Ostertag continues on with gay and lesbian press, the ...

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