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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
" He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland's life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates--the highly-rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood...
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Publisher
Potter Craft
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A celebration of this growing movement. Dozens of superstars of this grassroots phenomenon share their experiences, tips, and advice on living, teaching, and promoting a more meaningful DIY lifestyle. Learn to craft for your cause, connect with other crafters, think green, organize a fair, host an online exchange, create yarn graffiti, and more. Includes 17 creative projects from designers who challenge you to reimagine how your craft skills can be...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Coupled with the speed and networking capacities of social media, #blacklivesmatter was the hashtag heard round the world. But Alicia Garza well knew that the distance between a hashtag and real change would take more than a single facebook to cover. It would take a movement. Garza was a lifelong activist who had spent the previous decades educating herself on the hard lessons of organizing. She started as a kid, working on sexual education for her...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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"White Christians are waking up to the pervasive bias for white culture that shapes every aspect of society. Many are eager to confront white supremacy--but what steps should be taken to make good, lasting change? Pastor Daniel Hill offers White Lies, a practical guide for dismantling white supremacy in a healthy, effective way"--
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle." -- page [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges--who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class--investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution,...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Keep Marching is a practical guide and highly researched examination of the barriers that hold women back-and how to overcome them... This book provides proven tactics, policy solutions, and strategies any woman can use to build her power. Did you know that: one in three women have experienced some form of sexual assault?; when a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises?; the U.S. doesn't have paid family/medical leave but 177...
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Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A compelling phographic look at the important moments in the history of progressive resistance in America--from the civil rights movement to present--that will inspire the activists and change-makers of today." -- Back cover.
"A compelling photographic history of the important moments of progressive resistance--from the civil rights movement to the present--to inspire the change-makers and activists of today"--
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This truly intersectional collection of essays, fiction, and poetry sound the voices of black, Latinx, Asian, queer, and trans writers and says "me too" 22 times. Whether reflecting on their teenage selves or their modern-day workplaces, each contributor approaches the subject with unforgettable authenticity and strength."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about how global movements build power with Internet memes"--
Mina sees memes as the street art of the social web. She shows readers how they operate to reinforce, amplify, and shape today's politics, and are becoming fundamentally intertwined with how we find and affirm one another, direct attention to human rights and social justice issues, build narratives, and make culture. In parts of the world where public dissent is downright...
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Millions of Americans have marched to fight inequality and to bring about social change. These gatherings have shined a light on important issues and resulted in new laws. Discover some of the most famous marches in U.S. history--and encourages readers to stand up for the things they believe in"-- provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A guide to uplift our spirits as we work for justice in these politically turbulent times--from Reverend Otis Moss, III, Senior Pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and one of the country's most renowned and beloved spiritual and civil rights leaders. Once again, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first observed in the 1960s, it is midnight in America--a dark time of division and anxiety, with threats of violence looming in the shadows....
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up Fifth Ave in Manhattan, not by Susan B. Anthony, but by a...
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of loss, death, and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means--and how we take steps to get there. The uprising of 2020 marks a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history against racism and the politics of disposability that...
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Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A casi quinientas millas de tierra firme, convergen la resistencia raizal, los turistas negligentes, y una historia turbia sobre la conquista. Así lo vive Victoria, quien regresa a su hogar en el Caribe luego de vivir en México, dispuesta a descifrarse a sí misma y a su lugar de origen. San Andrés emerge apaciblemente en el mar Caribe. Parte de Colombia pero más cercana a Nicaragua, es una de las islas más grandes en un archipiélago que fue...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Oh, The Things We're For! is a celebration of the better world that is not only possible, but is here today if we choose it. Today's kids are well aware of the many challenges that they face in a world they are inheriting, from climate change to police violence, crowded classrooms to healthcare"--
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