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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Hafsa's Way
The Greenies (The Greenies, #1)
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Indignity: A Life Reimagined
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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
This Book Won't Burn
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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Love in Exile
The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
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
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
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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Frontline Stereo Podcast
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Occupy Wall Street
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Books for and About Activists
324 books — 307 voters

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Edward Abbey
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

Elie Wiesel
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

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