Best Activist Authors, Books, Video Sources & More
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Best Reading for Activists by Topic/Issue (soon)
- MOST ESSENTIAL AUTHORS & READINGS
- Movement for a New Society Authors, Books and Videos
- Civil Liberties, Surveillance and the Constitution
- Class, Race/Civil Rights, LGBTQi, Women
- Classic Activist Authors and Volumes
- Climate, Ecology and Environment
- Democracy, Elections/Voting and Government
- Economics and Business
- Education, Schools and Teaching
- Fiction for Activists
- History, Timelines and Future Prospects
- Humor
- Immigration and Latin America
- Labor and Work
- Media, Journalism and Technology
- Medical and Health
- Music and Art
- Nonviolence, Peace, War and Militarism;
Transnational: Middle East, Africa, Asia - Organizing, Training, Strategy and Tactics
- Mindfulness, Support, Spirituality and Preventing Burnout
- Hope in the Dark
- The Impossible Will Take a While
- The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way by Hillary Rettig
- Quotes
- VIDEOS and FILMS
Most Recommended Authors & Titles
| Gar Alperovitz | Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth, America Beyond Capitalism, What Then Must We Do? |
| Erwin Chemerinski | We the People, Case Against the Supreme Court, Conservative Assault on Constitution… |
| Noam Chomsky | Chomsky for Activists, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, The Precipice, Consequences of Capitalism… |
| Paul & Mark Engler | This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century. |
| Naomi Klein | How to Change Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logos… |
| George Lakey | How We Win, Viking Economics, |
| George Lakoff | Moral Politics, The Political Mind, Whose Freedom? … |
| Lawrence Lessig | They Don’t Represent Us, America Compromised, Republic Lost… |
| Bill Moyer | Doing Democracy, presenting his widely acclaimed Movement Action Plan |
| Ralph Nader | Unstoppable & more writings, video & audio |
| Robert Reich | The System, The Common Good, Economics in Wonderland, many more plus videos, articles, newsletter… |
| Gene Sharp | The Politics of Nonviolent Action, From Dictatorship to Democracy, The Anti-Coup… |
| Richard Wolff | Sickness Is the System, Understanding Socialism, Democracy at Work… |
| Howard Zinn | A Peoples History of the United States |
Best Bookstores/Dealers & Alternatives
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- New Society Publishers
- Chelsea Green
- Common Courage
- Haymarket Books
- Island Press
- George Lakey
- Politics-Prose.com, DC
- Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
- TheNation Books
More Great Authors & Books
- MovementforaNewSociety.org: MNS leaders have published scores of books, videos and hundreds of articles and pamphlets on its progressive “analysis, vision, strategy” and training: David Albert, Michael Beer (NonviolenceInternational.net), Steve Chase (Solidarity 2020 and Beyond), Chuck Collins (IPS-DC.org), George Lakey, Robert A. Irwin ( Building a Peace System ; digital searchable), Barbara Jensen, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Pamela Haines, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Peter Woodrow, Felice Yeskel, and Stephen Zunes. Prolific MNS writers now deceased include co-founders Lynne Shivers, Lillian and George Willoughby, and Bill Moyer whose Doing Democracy presents his widely acclaimed Movement Action Plan.
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