Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Activism"

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner)

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

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“ You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ”
― Buckminster Fuller

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