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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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Love in Exile
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
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It Rhymes With Takei
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
Sprache und Sein
Unlearn Patriarchy
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
How to Be an Antiracist
The Hate U Give
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
So You Want to Talk About Race
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
We Should All Be Feminists
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
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
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Design Under Neoliberalism
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Breaking Brown Book Reads
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Occupy Wall Street
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Campaign reads
129 books — 9 voters
Strategic Action for Animals by Melanie  JoyFor the Prevention of Cruelty by Diane L. BeersStriking at the Roots by Mark HawthorneCulture and Activism by Elizabeth CherryVoices for Animal Liberation by Brittany Michelson
Animal Rights Activism (Non-Fiction)
86 books — 3 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

Martin Luther King Jr.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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