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• Micro Activism

  How You Can Make a Difference in the World (without a Bullhorn) : Small Actions = Big Results

  Williams, Omkari L.,

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  Inspiration and practical know-how that can help people engage in small, doable actions that make a lasting impact

• Lifehouse

  Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

  Greenfield, Adam,

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  A Discussion how mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish.

• Something Between Us

  the Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down

  Pandian, Anand,

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  Mutual aid and communal caretaking are offered as ways that can help envision a life in common with others across the rigid lines we take so easily for granted.

• People, Power, Change

  Organizing for Democratic Renewal

  Ganz, Marshall, 1943-

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  An overview of the forces, craft, and learned skill of organizing in line with the principles of creating collective action.

• Community Data

  Creative Approaches to Empowering People With Information

  Bhargava, Rahul,

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  A new toolkit for data storytelling in community settings.

• Don't Talk About Politics

  How to Change 21st-century Minds

  Lubrano, Sarah Stein,

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  How can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life, and a better world for us all?

• Embodied Activism

  Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection : a Practical Guide for Transformative Social Change

  Johnson, Rae,

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  Embodied Activism considers our bodies--how we feel in them and relate to others through them--as the sites of transformation.

• We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  An examination of the capacities of ordinary people to cultivate a better self and a better world.

• The New Science of Social Change

  a Modern Handbook for Activists

  Mueller, Lisa (Scholar),

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  Analysis of global protest movements through a social science lens to identify what makes activism effective.

• We Need to Build

  Field Notes for Diverse Democracy

  Patel, Eboo, 1975-

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  A challenge to lead lives engaged in the particulars of building, nourishing, and sustaining a community that seeks to promote positive social change

• Dreaming of Home

  How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change

  Jiménez, Cristina,

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  Home is more than a physical place on the map, even when the world around us seems to be crumbling

• The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

  Schulman, Sarah, 1958-

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  Solidarity with the oppressed is examined to provide a new vision for what it means to engaged and why that matters.

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