How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia

How to Make Trouble #4

by Iain McIntyre, Andrew Hansen (Foreword), Josh MacPhee (Foreword)

This book reveals Australia’s radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, student occupations, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, urban interventions, squatting, blockades, banner drops, guerilla theatre, and billboard liberation. Twelve key Australian activists and pranksters are interviewed regarding their opposition to racism, nuclear power, war, economic exploitation, and religious conservatism via humor and creativity. Featuring more than 300 spectacular images How to Make Trouble and Influence People is an inspiring, and at times hilarious, record of resistance that will appeal to readers everywhere.

Genres: Politics, Australia, History, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[nis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a lot of fun. The non-chronological, non-thematic approach makes it very hard to use it for research, but I suppose it fits with the general playful attitude. three cheers for liberty

[OSKR · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mandatory reading if you are or have ever been involved with the activist movement in Australia. For everyone else, including those in other countries - there's a heck of a lot of good ideas here, and it's a lot of fun!

[Sayraphim Lothian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally LOVE this book, it's ABSOLUTELY one of my favorites. SUCH a great compendium of trouble makers, pranks and mischiefs (mischieves?) from the last 200 years in Australia.