Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society and to correct social injustice. Forms of activism range from writing letters to newspapers or to politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing businesses, rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, and hunger strikes. One can also express activism through different forms of art. Daily acts of protest such as not buying clothes from a certain clothing company because they ...more

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End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Building 903
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
Indignity: A Life Reimagined
Together We See
Fight Oligarchy
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Linked
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Woman, Life, Freedom
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
How to Be an Antiracist
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
The Hate U Give
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
So You Want to Talk About Race
We Should All Be Feminists
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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Best Underground-ish Poetry
22 books — 21 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonMaking A Difference by James L. HechtDE LA CAPTIVITÉ À LA LIBERTÉ by Léonce JATCHEThe Soul Whispers Poetry Ebook by Vikki KoplickEbook Sacred Animal Activism by Vikki Koplick
Activist memoirs
196 books — 57 voters
Migrant Crisis by John   SteelV for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
77 books — 70 voters

Strategic Action for Animals by Melanie  JoyFor the Prevention of Cruelty by Diane L. BeersStriking at the Roots by Mark HawthorneCulture and Activism by Elizabeth CherryVoices for Animal Liberation by Brittany Michelson
Animal Rights Activism (Non-Fiction)
100 books — 3 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Books for and About Activists
327 books — 315 voters


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Leonardo da Vinci
“ It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ”
― Leonardo da Vinci

Elie Wiesel
“ The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ...more ”
― Elie Wiesel

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