Books on Activism

more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Calling All Radicals How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy By Gabriel Thompson American democracy seems to be in retreat. Voting rates are at an all-time low, citizens are disillusioned, and inequality continues to soar. But there is also a belief among regular citizens that change is possible and that it can be achieved the old fashioned way: through grassroots organizing.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Antiwar Soldier How to Dissent Within the Ranks of the Military By Jonathan W. Hutto Navy Petty Officer Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr. outlines the rights those serving in the U.S. military have when taking political action and protesting the Iraq War. More information about troops' rights. More information about the book, forthcoming from Nation Books in March.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Waging Peace The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement By Scott Ritter From the author of Iraq Confidentialand Target Irancomes a bold new handbook for the anti-war movement, inspired by the very philosophies of those who peace activists would usually spurn: the masters of the art of conflict.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Grassroots Gardening Rituals for Sustaining Activism By Donna Schaper This illuminating collection of essays shows how the rituals of gardening--dirt touching, seeding, harvesting--can nurture and sustain an activist life, whether you are a radical, urban, nomad, or just someone who wants to stay sufficiently angry, humble, and hopeful. Read an excerpt here.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	The Ten Minute Activist Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet By The Mission Collective What if making a difference only required ten minutes of our time every day?	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Imaginary Weapons A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld By Sharon Weinberger This wild ride through the bizarre underworld of official fringe science in America--exemplified by the military's ill-advised scheme to develop an isomer bomb--reveals the perverse incompetence of a partisan industry.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	The Motherhood Manifesto What America's Moms Want--And What to Do About It By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner The Motherhood Manifesto is a call to arms for working moms and a blueprint for radical change in the attitudes and policies that define parenting and work in the United States.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Nothing but an Unfinished Song Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation By Denis O'Hearn The life, resistance, and death of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands inspired millions around the world. This is his story.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Letters from Young Activists Today's Rebels Speak Out By Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, a bold new generation of activists--aged 10 to 31--articulate their vision for the world.	more Buy It Online Amazon > Barnes & Noble > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Taking Back the Corporation A Mad as Hell Guide By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader Ralph Estes reveals what's wrong with big corporations, the harm they do to us all, and how this perversion of corporate purpose came to be. He then lays out a concrete program to take back the corporation and restore it to its original social and public purpose.
more Buy It Online Amazon > Booksense.com > Powells.com >	Come Out Fighting A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation By Chris Bull This definitive anthology brings together the groundbreaking writings that provoked and promoted the gay movement's social and political breakthroughs.

How to Rule The World Book Tour

April 19 - May 21 | Across the United States
Nation Books author Mark Engler kicks off his multi-city book tour to promote How to Rule The World at the Bluestockings bookstore in New York. The event begins at 7 p.m.

May 8 - 9 | 7:30 am
Bruce Mau at The New Yorker conference
(IAC Building, Chelsea, New York )
Listen to Institute Fellow Bruce Mau speak at The New Yorker conference. MORE

May 10 | 9 am
Jonathan Schell Wins Award at Thinking Outside the Bomb Conference
(Sheraton University City, Philadelphia)
Senior Fellow Jonathan Schell will accept the 2008 John and Chara Haas Award for International Peace and Social Justice at 6 p.m. during the Project for Nuclear Awareness conference, Thinking Outside the Bomb. MORE

Books on Activism

Calling All Radicals

How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy

By Gabriel Thompson

Antiwar Soldier

How to Dissent Within the Ranks of the Military

By Jonathan W. Hutto

Waging Peace

The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement

By Scott Ritter

Grassroots Gardening

Rituals for Sustaining Activism

By Donna Schaper

The Ten Minute Activist

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet

By The Mission Collective

Imaginary Weapons

A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld

By Sharon Weinberger

The Motherhood Manifesto

What America's Moms Want--And What to Do About It

By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Nothing but an Unfinished Song

Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation

By Denis O'Hearn

Letters from Young Activists

Today's Rebels Speak Out

By Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn

Taking Back the Corporation

A Mad as Hell Guide

By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader

Come Out Fighting

A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation

By Chris Bull

How to Rule The World Book Tour



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Books on Activism

How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy By Gabriel Thompson

How to Dissent Within the Ranks of the Military By Jonathan W. Hutto

The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement By Scott Ritter

Rituals for Sustaining Activism By Donna Schaper

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet By The Mission Collective

A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld By Sharon Weinberger

What America's Moms Want--And What to Do About It By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation By Denis O'Hearn

Today's Rebels Speak Out By Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn

A Mad as Hell Guide By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader

A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation By Chris Bull

How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy

By Gabriel Thompson

How to Dissent Within the Ranks of the Military

By Jonathan W. Hutto

The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement

By Scott Ritter

Rituals for Sustaining Activism

By Donna Schaper

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet

By The Mission Collective

A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld

By Sharon Weinberger

What America's Moms Want--And What to Do About It

By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation

By Denis O'Hearn

Today's Rebels Speak Out

By Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn

A Mad as Hell Guide

By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader

A Century of Essential Writing on Gay & Lesbian Liberation

By Chris Bull