Activism & Social Justice

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young...

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for...

For decades, conservative evangelicals and so-called gender critical feminists have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond? In Gender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545211Author Dana CuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013553Author Donald WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

In A Vital Frontier Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Traversing social, political, legal, and hydrological terrains, Muehlebach...

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings is the first work to collect Garver Jordan's fiction and journalism, much of which has been out of print for over a century.Jordan began her career as a reporter, making her name as one of few female...

Originally published in two volumes between 1923 and 1925, Africa for Africans: Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is a compilation of letters, speeches and essays by one of the Fathers of Pan-Africanism.Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr...

In Europe and North America, we see a trend of the white working-class tempted by right-wing political parties. Fascistic candidates and ideas seem to reap the fruits of social unrest everywhere. With her usual thought-provoking and unyielding analyses,...

Hope lies in our richness, in the joy of our collective creativity. But that richness exists in the peculiar form of money. The fact that we relate to on another through money causes tremendous social pain and destruction and is dragging us through...

Many of us have been conditioned to think about justice as something to be sought only externally, a cause to fight for in the world. But what if instead of looking outside ourselves, we start within? With Joyfully Just, we are invited on a...

A collection of political writings by the radical socialist and feminist geographer, Doreen Massey, edited by David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher.Book InformationISBN 9781913546045Author Doreen MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Lawrence &...

"I'm in love with this book! It illuminates the forces that make parenting so difficult, and helps us develop better relationships with our kids-and ourselves."-Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE, author of Raising Good HumansParenting is hard. But when we...

Foreword by Jonathan Van NessFrom a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights-and a subject of the forthcoming documentary Every Body, from the filmmakers behind RBG-a funny, thought-provoking collection of...

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna...

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South...

'A masterful intervention that is particularly pertinent for an age of austerity, pandemic, and rising living costs' Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality The rise of the extreme right globally, the crisis of capitalism and the withdrawal of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You...

'A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist who left us with new ways to understand humankind. His writings picked apart political power and social hierarchy to reveal...

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997146745Author Elizabeth MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 710Imprint Tidal Time Publishing, LLCPublisher Tidal Time Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Founded in the 1970s and today active in more than 40 countries, the Animal Liberation Front has in recent years been considered a domestic terrorist group by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center-despite the ALF's official stance of nonviolence. A...

Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social...

Named one of The Progressive magazine's Favorite Books of the YearAn inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change"Ken [Grossinger] is one of the smartest strategists I know." -John Sweeney,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048286Author Kendra CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541884Author Pete EarleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration - and long-overdue reassessment - of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and...

As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served-not to mention his family and friends-shared his conviction that all girls belong in the classroom. He was shocked to learn that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523003365Author Esther A. ArmahFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352666Author Jordan FlahertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668207024Author Saeed JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Washington Square PressPublisher Washington Square PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922964267Author Fiona McAnenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In the late 2000s, when the oil sands industry proposed expanding its capacity to transport fossil fuel products, an unprecedented coalition of Indigenous nations and communities, environmental non-governmental organizations, grassroots groups, and...

We like to believe that bigotry is a product of ignorance and that if we educate people enough, they will become immune to bigotry. But what if bigotry isn't a lack of education, but rather a moral code that people live by? What if bigotry is a common...

When the bestselling first edition of Becoming an Ally was published in 1994, the language of "ally" was new. Three decades later, it is everywhere - used, misused, embraced, rejected and interpreted in many different ways. This groundbreaking book has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816548644Author Rafael A. MartinezFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889842507Author Vanessa Machado de OliveiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

A history of cinema's role in popularizing the politics of Palestinian liberation For decades, Arab American activists and allies have used film, video, and multimedia to mobilize support for the Palestinian cause in the United States. In this...

From the US to Europe and beyond, diversity and inclusion efforts are increasingly being caught in the crossfire of a culture war. As the backlash against 'DEI' grows, fairness and dignity are being reframed as divisive - rather than just smart business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963892109Author Walden BelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...