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
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
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
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
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Black Lives Matter - Kids!
176 books — 31 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
323 books — 306 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
V for Vendetta by Alan             MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinSleep State Interrupt (1) by T.C. Weber
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
72 books — 51 voters


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Walt Whitman
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season ...more
Walt Whitman

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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