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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Maple for the People
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
Fight Oligarchy
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Linked
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Love in Exile
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
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
So You Want to Talk About Race
We Should All Be Feminists
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,075 books — 1,204 voters
Untenrum frei by Margarete StokowskiDer kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen by Alice SchwarzerSprache und Sein by Kübra GümüşayDie Wand by Marlen HaushoferUnlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers
Feminismus auf Deutsch
79 books — 13 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth GaskellThe Subjection of Women by John Stuart MillThe Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
Early Feminists
187 books — 78 voters
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol TavrisThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellMade to Stick by Chip HeathThe Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaIn Defense of Animals by Peter Singer
Rhetoric and strategy of social change
133 books — 51 voters



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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller

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

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