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• Thomas Piketty's Capital & Ideology

  a Graphic Novel Adaptation

  Alet, Claire,

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  Praised by Piketty himself as a “magnificent adaptation” of his original book, this graphic novel adaptation is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today.

• Rules for Radicals

  a Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

  Alinsky, Saul D., 1909-1972

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  First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nation on No Map

  Black Anarchism and Abolition

  Anderson, William C. (Freelance writer)

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  The Nation On No Map uses Black anarchism as a tool of survival in an age of crisis. Picking up where his co-authored debut As Black As Resistance left off, Anderson rejects nationalism, the State, and citizenship as avenues to achieve…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Appalachian Reckoning

  a Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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  Appalachian writers and scholars rebut the "gross simplifications and stereotypes" of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. (Publishers Weekly)

• Autocracy, Inc.

  the Dictators Who Want to Run the World

  Applebaum, Anne, 1964-

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  We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Against Landlords

  How to Solve the Housing Crisis

  Bano, Nick,

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  Nick Bano demonstrates that Britain's housing crisis is not the product of happenstance or political incompetence. Government policy has intentionally split British citizens into homeowners and renters, two classes set on very different…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond Survival

  Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement

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  Structural inequality is the root cause of crime; here are some strategies for accountability beyond the criminal justice system. (Catalog description)

• Practical Radicals

  Seven Strategies to Change the World

  Bhargava, Deepak

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  How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? Based on interviews with leading organizers, this book describes seven strategies to bring about transformative change. It incorporates stories of organizations and movements…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire on the Mountain

  Bisson, Terry

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  In a South where the Civil War never happened, a successful slave revolution spawns a socialist utopia, and a Black woman grieves for the loss of her astronaut husband on a mission to Mars.

• The Next American Revolution

  Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century

  Boggs, Grace Lee

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  In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis--political, economical, and environmental--and shows how to create the radical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abortion Beyond the Law

  Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-managed Abortion

  Braine, Naomi

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  How feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe are making self-managed abortion available to all-and the strong transnational feminist movement they have built along the way. (Catalog description)

• Antifa

  the Anti-fascist Handbook

  Bray, Mark (Political activist)

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  In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the "antifa" opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Against Doom

  a Climate Insurgency Manual

  Brecher, Jeremy

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  Late in 2015, nearly two hundred countries signed the Paris Agreement acknowledging their individual and collective duty to protect the earth's climate - and willfully refused to perform that duty. They unanimously agreed to the goal of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strike

  Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire

  Bond, Sarah E.

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  Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire. (Catalog description)

• Emergent Strategy

  Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

  brown, adrienne maree

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  Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.

• Grievers

  brown, adrienne maree

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  Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. As the quarantined city slowly empties of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holding Change

  the Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

  brown, adrienne maree

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  Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loving Corrections

  brown, adrienne maree

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  New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever and offers a practice for holding collective power, righting wrongs, and generating true belonging.

• Maroons

  brown, adrienne maree

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  The pandemic of Syndrome H-8 continues to ravage the city of Detroit and everyone in Dune's life. In Maroons, she must learn what community and connection mean in the lonely wake of a fatal virus. Emerging from grief to follow a subtle…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pleasure Activism

  the Politics of Feeling Good

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  Drawing on the black feminist tradition, the author, introducing “Pleasure Activism”—a politics of healing and happiness, presents this powerful collection of essays in which various contributors take up the challenge to rethink the ground…Read moreRead more of this annotation