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Communities Directory:A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Communities
Fellowship for Intentional ComReleased 2007-08-20
Volunteer:A Traveler's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World
Hindle, CharlotteReleased 2007-06-20
Are you looking for a more meaningful travel experience? Do you want to give back to the communities you visit, make a genuine connection with locals, meet like-minded travelers and build your skills? International volunteering opens up all these opportunities, and this book has all the advice you need to get you there.
Finding Community:How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community
Diana Leafe ChristianReleased 2007-05-20
Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what makes us human. However, the notion of an intentional community can still be a tremendous leap for some-deterred perhaps by a misguided vision of eking out a hardscrabble existence with little reward.
Pacifism as Pathology:Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
Churchill, WardReleased 2007-04-20
"This extraordinarily important book cuts to the heart of one of the central reasons movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail. The fundamental question here is: is violence ever an acceptable tool to help bring about social change?"
Money and Liberation:The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements
North, PeterReleased 2007-04-20
"Peter North shows how the use of currency has been redefined as part of political action, revealing surprising political ambiguity and a nuanced understanding of the potential and limits on alternative currencies as a resistance practice."
Refuse to Choose!:A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything that You Love
Sher, BarbaraReleased 2007-03-20
With dozens of powerful techniques Sher has developed to free people from goal paralysis, readers will stop thinking of themselves as dabblers or dilettantes, and find innovative ways to live lives of variety, challenge, and joy
Silent Gesture:The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
Smith, TommieReleased 2007-02-20
"Smith fills out the story around that moment--how it came to be and where it led him."
Loyal to the Sky : Notes from an Activist (Hardcover)
Handler, MarisaReleased 2007-02-01
"She demystifies direct action and describes how she came to advocate a spiritually based, nonviolent activism. Her gradual realization that injustice existed even in this more open, democratic society spurred a commitment to activism that would take her to Israel, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Peru, and all over the United States."
Art of Free Cooperation
Scholz and TreborReleased 2006-12-20
This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before. Activists contribute citizen journalism. New media artists create social online tools and urge others to participate. Knowledge collectives gather information in large, open repositories. Free culture - with all its file sharing applications - is blossoming. Contributors Howard Rheingold, Christoph Spehr, Brian Holmes, Geert Lovink and Trbor Scholz link the debates about web-based, cooperation-enhancing technologies to the broader world of political activism. This book and its accompanying DVD emerge out of intensive debates at the Free Cooperation conference in 2004 at the State University of New York at Buffalo facilitated by Scholz and Lovink.
A. Philip Randolph:A Life in the Vanguard
Kersten, AndrewReleased 2006-12-20
"In this concise and engaging new book, historian Andrew Kersten explores Randolph's influences and accomplishments as both a labor and civil rights leader."
Unexpected Power : Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists (Paperback)
Hertel, ShareenReleased 2006-11-01
"Shareen Hertel explores the dramatic negotiations within cross-border human rights campaigns. Activists on the receiving end of such campaigns do much more than seek the help of powerful allies beyond their borders."