#socialmedia #activism #race #gender #humor #africanamericanwomen #hardcover #nonfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

memoirs and mistakes of an accidental activist

Well, that escalated quickly

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#paperback #justice #antiracism #activism #racism #injustice #socialjustice #BLM #race 

The book looks brand-new. Cover is great, no markings inside. 

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Recipe Guide for Conversations about Race That Goes Beyond Covered Dishes and Kum-Bah-Ya

Many Americans are distressed by race but few know how to talk about it. This book tells how.Dialogue, the authors posit, begins the path to racial reconciliation. The Anti-Racist Cookbook gives straight-forward advice on forming dialogue groups. Everything is here, from whom to invite and how to arrange the room, to how to facilitate and what questions to discuss.Recommended for community groups, students, activists, educators, trainers, faith-based organizations, diversity councils, and anyone else interested in answering the question “What can we do and how can we do it?”

The Anti-Racist Cookbook

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Stories from Our Work

Accountability and White Anti-racist Organizing

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Joy McCullough

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.

Code Red

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The book itself is in good condition, but there are some imperfections on the dust jacket, as pictured.

New Jersey

Standing up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Richards offers practical advice and inspiration for aspiring leaders everywhere."--Hillary Rodham Clinton

"An enthralling memoir." --Booklist (starred review)

To Make Change, You Have to Make Trouble

From Cecile Richards--president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and a "heroine of the resistance" (Vogue)--comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice.

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards household, the "dinner table was never for eating--it was for sorting precinct lists."

From the time Richards was a girl, she had a front-row seat to observe the rise of women in American politics. She watched her mother, Ann, transform from a housewife to an electrifying force in the Democratic party who made a name for herself as the straight-talking, truth-telling governor of Texas. But Richards also witnessed the pitfalls of public life that are unique to women. Her experiences paint a powerful portrait of the misogyny, sexism, fake news, and even the threat of violence confronting those who challenge authority.

As a young woman, Richards worked as a labor organizer alongside women earning minimum wage and learned that those in power don't give it up without a fight. Now, after years of advocacy, resistance, and progressive leadership, she shares her story for the first time--from the joy and heartbreak of activism to the challenges of raising kids, having a life, and making change, all at the same time.

She shines a light on the people and lessons that have gotten her through good times and bad, and encourages readers to take risks, make mistakes, and make trouble along the way. Richards has dedicated her life to taking on injustice, and her memoir will inspire readers to hope and action.

Make Trouble

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#hardcover #children #activism #boardbook #childrens #nonfiction 

Washington

One of NPR's Top 100 Book for Young Readers “Reading it is almost like reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but for two-year olds—full of pictures and rhymes and a little cat to find on every page that will delight the curious toddler and parents alike.”—Occupy Wall Street A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents' values of community, equality, and justice. This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love for books.

A Is for Activist

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Angie Thomas

Amandla Stenberg

Due to a binding error, the first few chapters' pages are out of order

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

8 starred reviews ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds "Stunning." —John Green "This story is necessary. This story is important." —Kirkus (starred review) "Heartbreakingly topical." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A marvel of verisimilitude." —Booklist (starred review) "A powerful, in-your-face novel." —Horn Book (starred review) Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. And don't miss On the Come Up, Angie Thomas's powerful follow-up to The Hate U Give.

The Hate U Give *READ DESCRIPTION*

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Gail A. Eisnitz

Listed as fair because it has a slight binding issue. I don’t know exactly why. I think it just might have been bonded poorly. If you are vegan for the animals. This is a sad interesting read. Like watching a documentary. Great knowledge if you do activism. 

The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U. S. Meat Industry

With powerful descriptions reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's masterpiece "The Jungle", this book takes a shocking, frightening look at where our beef, poultry, and pork are "mass-produced". Photos.

Slaughterhouse

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California

A New American Life

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." -- Boston Globe

Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, daring war correspondent, tragic heroine. After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island, the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by scandal. Marshall's inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life.

Whether detailing her front-page New-York Tribune editorials against poor conditions in the city's prisons and mental hospitals, or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience--including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard--Marshall's biography gives the most thorough and compassionate view of an extraordinary woman. No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving.

"Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

"Shaping her narrative like a novel, Marshall brings the reader as close as possible to Fuller's inner life and conveys the inspirational power she has achieved for several generations of women." -- New Republic

Margaret Fuller

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Kiddos take on an environmental cause 💙 #newberryhonorbook #activism #paperback #fiction #juvenilefiction #humor #carlhiaasen #hoot #kids #summer 

Tennessee

Hoot

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#paperback #socialmovements #history #activism #environmentalism #climatechange #globalwarming #climatedidaster #survival

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Common Preservation in Action

We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimper of an expiring ecosphere. Today our individual self-preservation depends on common preservation--cooperation to provide for our mutual survival and well-being.

For half a century Jeremy Brecher has been studying and participating in social movements that have created new forms of common preservation. Through entertaining storytelling and personal narrative, Save the Humans? provides a unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world. Brecher traces a path that leads from the sitdown strikes on the pyramids of ancient Egypt through America's mass strikes and labor revolts to the struggle against economic globalization to today's battles against climate change.

Weaving together personal experience, scholarly research, and historical interpretation, Jeremy Brecher shows how we can construct a "human survival movement" that could "save the humans." He sums up the theme of this book: "I have seen common preservation--and it works." For those seeking an understanding of social movements and an alternative to denial and despair, there is simply no better place to look than Save the Humans?

Save the Humans?

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Dented dust jacket (as shown in two photos)

A Parable of American Healing

"One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation.

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free illuminates for each of us how the path to healing America's broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.The son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous' lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including:

 * Why do white men die from suicide more often than black men die from murder?
 * How did racial profiling kill an American president?
 * What happens when a Ku Klux Klansman wrestles with what Jesus actually said? 
 * How did Dave Chappelle know the DC Snipers were Black? 
 * Why shouldn't the civil rights movement give up on rednecks?
 * When is what we have collectively forgotten about race more important than what we actually know?
 * What do the most indecipherable things our elders say tell us about ourselves?

 Told as a series of parables, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free features intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart.

More than anything, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free offers readers hope America's oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome.

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free

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Nandini Ahuja

Very good condition one page is wrinkled as seen in photos.

Ohio

With Real Mail, Posters, and More!

Rise up and Write It

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John Blake

The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Transformed Thei

These profiles offer a look at the adult children of the most recognizable figures of the civil rights movement and how their lives were shaped by their parents' struggles and legacies.

NonFiction & Civil Rights 📚 | Children of the Movement by John Blake | Hardcover

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Has yellow highlighter on certain pages. 

A Black Lives Matter Memoir

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Also: New York Times Editor’s Pick, O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now,” Entertainment Weekly’s “13 Books to Read in January,” Cassius’ “Black Books to Add to Your Reading List,” Vogue’s “The Most Anticipated Books of January 2018,” Paste’s “10 of the Best Books of January 2018,” Bitch Magazine’s “Bitch Reads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read in January,” ELLE’s “19 of the Best Books to Read This Winter.” "This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation. This book is a must-read for all of us." - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country—and the world—that Black Lives Matter. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.

When They Call You a Terrorist

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Leana Wen

Idaho

A Doctor's Journey on the Frontlines of Medicine and Social Justice

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role—from opioid addiction to global pandemic—and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. “Public health saved your life today—you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen—emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist—has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live.

Public Health Saved Your Life Today

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Very light wear on corners.

How do you know when the person who can make the difference . . . is you? 
 
Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, new experiences, and a field trip to the big city with her best buds!  
 
But when Olive finds out that a school policy is keeping some kids from going on the trip, she decides to act. She's prepared to do whatever it takes to be heard—even if it means running against Trent and Sawyer, two of her closest friends, in the student council election! With intense campaign competition and emotions running high, can Olive make a big change and keep her friends?

Missouri

Act is the funny and honest follow-up to the middle school graphic novel sensations Click and Camp. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Shannon Hale, and Victoria Jamieson.

 

How do you know when the person who can make the difference . . . is you?

 

Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, new experiences, and a field trip to the big city with her best buds!

 

But when Olive finds out that a school policy is keeping some kids from going on the trip, she decides to act. She's prepared to do whatever it takes to be heard--even if it means running against Trent and Sawyer, two of her closest friends, in the student council election! With intense campaign competition and emotions running high, can Olive make a big change and keep her friends?

 

New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kayla Miller crafts a genuine and inspiring story about evolving friendships, supportive family, and finding out that you--yes, you--have the power to make a difference.

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Les Leopold

Michigan

An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice

Revised, Updated Edition

Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one! During that time a new economic philosophy set in that cut taxes, deregulated finance, and trimmed social spending. Those policies set in motion a process that greatly expanded the power of financial interests to accelerate inequality. But how exactly does that happen?

Using easy-to-understand charts and graphs, Runaway Inequality explains the process by which corporation after corporation falls victim to systematic wealth extraction by banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds. It reveals how financial strip-mining puts enormous downward pressure on jobs, wages, benefits, and working conditions, while boosting the incomes of financial elites.

But Runaway Inequality does more than make sense of our economic plight. It also shows why virtually all the key issues that we face--from climate change to the exploding prison population--are intimately connected to rising economic inequality.

Most importantly, Runaway Inequality calls upon us to build a common movement to tackle the sources of increasing income and wealth inequality. As the author makes clear, the problem will not cure itself. It will take enormous energy and dedication to bring economic justice and fairness back to American society.

The book is divided into four parts:

 * Part I: What is the fundamental cause of runaway economic inequality? What has made our economy less fair and left most of us less secure?

 * Part II: How does the United States really compare with other major developed countries?  How do we stack up on quality of life, health, and well-being?
 * Part III:  What does economic inequality have to do with so many of the critical issues we face, including taxes, debt, education, criminal justice, racism, climate change, foreign trade, and war?
 * Part IV: What concrete steps can we take to begin building a fair and just society?   

From the book: "There is nothing in the economic universe that will automatically rescue us from runaway inequality. There is no pendulum, no invisible political force that 'naturally' will swing back towards economic fairness. Either we wage a large-scale battle for economic, social, and environmental justice, or we will witness the continued deterioration of the world we inhabit. The arc of capitalism does not bend towards justice. We must bend it."

Runaway Inequality

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One Hundred One Easy Things You Can Do

Save the Animals!

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Patrisse Cullors

asha bandele

Angela Davis

Delaware

#hardcover #travel #oceantravel #sailing #pollution #plasticpollution #environment #environmentalism #activism #garbage 

Vermont

An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution

"An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" Over the past several years, the news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna, and set out to study marine pollution, they found that the reality is even more dire: instead of a stable mass of litter, they discovered that a "plastic smog" of microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying simplistic clean-up efforts. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of Eriksen's fight to raise awareness and solve the problem of plastic pollution, contributing to a fast-growing movement to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade "junk raft," and along the way he recounts the successful efforts to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers take responsibility for a problem they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it's up to bold, brash, unapologetically activist "citizen scientists" to challenge the status quo for the sake of the planet"--

Junk Raft

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#paperback #humantrafficking #inourbackyard, #NitaBELLES #slavery #evil #sextrafficking #Activism box 75

Texas

Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It

In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other people" such as runaways or the disenfranchised. The human trafficker is no respecter of faith, education, or socioeconomic status, and even kids who are raised in solid families in middle and upper class suburbs can fall victim. Likewise, labor trafficking happens in our cities, neighborhoods, and rural areas. Through true stories and years of boots-on-the-ground experience, including at the Super Bowl, anti-trafficking expert Nita Belles teaches readers everything they need to know about human trafficking in the United States and what they can do to join the fight against it. She helps concerned parents, friends, teachers, law enforcement, government officials, and other leaders understand all forms of trafficking, identify risk factors, and take practical steps to keep their loved ones and neighbors safe from predators.

In Our Backyard

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Catrice Jackson

Minnesota

Antagonists, Advocates and Allies

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Carrie Mackinnon

Co-Operative Decision-Making for Activists, Co-Ops and Communities

A practical guide to facilitating consensus decision making

The essential manual for grassroots organising by Seeds for Change, one of the leading activist training collectives

This book explains the spirit and philosophy of co-operative decision making, and gives practical, easy to read guidance on how to facilitate a consensus process. A Consensus Handbook looks at common situations and explains the skills and tools your group can use to ease the path to a decision.

Includes:

 * Skills and tools for facilitation and decision making
 * Small and large groups
 * Face to face or virtual meetings
 * Spirit and philosophy of consensus decision making
 * Troubleshoot your consensus process - a guide to dealing with common pitfalls and problems
 * Consensus in the wider world - how can consensus decision making be used outside small groups?

Whether you're new to consensus or are experienced; whether you think it's the best way to make decisions or are struggling to make it work: this book is for you

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Franchesca Ramsey

Well, that escalated quickly

Robin Parker; Pamela Smith Chambers

The Anti-Racist Cookbook

Bonnie Berman Cushing (Editor-In-Chief); Lila Cabbil (Editor); Margery Freeman (Editor); Jeff Hitchcock (Editor); Kimberley Richards (Editor)

Accountability and White Anti-racist Organizing

Joy McCullough

Code Red

Cecile Richards

Make Trouble

Innosanto Nagara

A Is for Activist

Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give *READ DESCRIPTION*

Gail A. Eisnitz

Slaughterhouse

Megan Marshall

Margaret Fuller

Carl Hiaasen

Hoot

Jeremy Brecher

Save the Humans?

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free

Nandini Ahuja

Rise up and Write It

John Blake

NonFiction & Civil Rights 📚 | Children of the Movement by John Blake | Hardcover

Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele

When They Call You a Terrorist

Leana Wen

Public Health Saved Your Life Today

Kayla Miller (Illustrator)

Act

Les Leopold

Runaway Inequality

Ingrid Newkirk; Linda McCartney (Foreword by); Cleveland Amory (Introduction by)

Save the Animals!

Patrisse Cullors; asha bandele; Angela Davis

When They Call You a Terrorist

Marcus Eriksen

Junk Raft

Nita Belles

In Our Backyard

Catrice Jackson

Antagonists, Advocates and Allies

Carrie Mackinnon

A Consensus Handbook

The Hate U Give READ DESCRIPTION