{"id":8567,"date":"2018-05-07T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:48:41","slug":"8567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/8567\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookcover\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"summary-frontcover\" title=\"Front Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/content?id=Nv2pCwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=1&amp;imgtk=AFLRE70ugDxHD8-CS8tTgTkQprsxwIacQD51C-seWvdasLNwKjNhGWX3Bgq1IT3cUillCv8HIVXWWRQp_zHn0wTL7C8eGvUOuj3jXZdjh2H4fTmdlboDxBIXe6po_mc2a1tyaH2i6Nyi\" alt=\"Front Cover\" width=\"128\" border=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"bookinfo_sectionwrap\">\n<div><a class=\"secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=inauthor:%22Raoul+Martinez%22\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Raoul Martinez<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">Canongate Books<\/span>,\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">Sep 29, 2016<\/span>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=subject:%22Political+Science%22&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Political Science<\/span><\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">412 pages<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the run up to the June 8th General Election, Raoul Martinez and his publisher have decided to make the ebook of his book Creating Freedom free to readers in the UK so that the ideas and knowledge contained within it can be as widely disseminated as possible. We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith in free media, free markets, free elections and free will is dangerously misplaced. Written with empathy and imagination, this scholarly, fierce and profoundly hopeful manifesto makes a dazzling case for creating freedom on our own terms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raoul Martinez Canongate Books,\u00a0Sep 29, 2016\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Political Science\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0412 pages In the run up to the June 8th General Election, Raoul Martinez and his publisher have decided to make the ebook of his book Creating Freedom free to readers in the UK so that the ideas and knowledge contained within it can&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/8567\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}