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Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and their Allies
…we are animals, and aren’t able to decide not to have feelings. Just like the earth, we are going to quake if sufficiently shaken. We don’t get to choose whether or not traumatic events will damage our psychic infrastructure.
Continue reading...The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Behind the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
29. March 2010
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded confirms and explains the strings attached to philanthropic grants while presenting a global cross-section of modern political discontent.
Continue reading...Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine
5. March 2010
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Becoming the Media provides an in-depth analysis of the intersectional radical and left wing publication Clamor, which emerged with the Independent Media Centre movement
Continue reading...The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
2. December 2009
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As an activist, being effective is more important than merely being busy. A hectic schedule does not automatically translate into social change and doing more is not the same as achieving more.
Continue reading...Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
3. September 2009
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This poetic book of history is about those who found themselves on the wrong side of the American Dream. Specifically, it examines the thoughts by and about the striving, and mostly failing, businessmen who exemplified the ‘entrepreneurial spirit.’
Continue reading...My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes
29. August 2009
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Written by a son who wanted to find out more about his footballing father after he died, this book is more than just a biography. It reveals a football world that has changed beyond all recognition in the past 50 years.
Continue reading...Before You Enlist!: The Real Deal on Joining the Military
17. March 2009
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Before You Enlist!: The Real Deal on Joining the Military, is an outstanding short documentary about the reality of enlisting in the U.S. military. The film starts with youth of color being interviewed in an urban setting, with hip hop music playing, and makes clear who the military is targeting to enlist.
Continue reading...It’s My Life! A Guide to Alternatives After High School
8. February 2009
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From the Noble Peace Prize winning American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) comes It's My Life! an outstanding resource for any middle school, high school, community center, religion center, peace organization, and even youth detention facility. As a teacher at a youth detention facility I order ten of these amazing books to use every month.
Continue reading...Become A Friend
2. April 2010
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