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

New Releases Tagged "Activism"

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
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-GarciaRon's Big Mission by Rose BlueSmoky Night by Eve BuntingSit-In by Andrea Davis PinkneyThe Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Black Lives Matter - Kids!
176 books — 31 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

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
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan             MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
471 books — 372 voters

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


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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
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E.B. White
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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