Please let me know if you have books (or their library URLs from your local library) to add by tweeting me @dakotakim1. I'll be here reduxing my college years headbanging to Bikini Kill until I can remove all traces of Giuliani quote-slime from my brain.
NOTE: I cannot with good conscience, after having read enough about them, recommend the purchase of anything on Amazon, for many good reasons. However, I do get my free library Kindle books via Amazon delivery, and I purchased Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow for .99 cents on Amazon Kindle.
For clarity, I will put books in italics and articles, websites or online resources in "quotation marks."
BOOKS
Listed in alphabetical order of author's last name (because that's how we library addicts roll). Look in non-fiction or social justice, consult catalog online or at one of the library terminals, or ask a librarian or bookseller.
1. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Alinsky, Saul
An activist classic and Alinsky's last book before his death, this book has 10 chapters on community organization, education, communication and ethics, and has been used by many successful organizers.
NYPL BPL Powells Alibris
2. Rules for Revolutionaries
Bond, Becky; Exley, Zack
Powells
3. The Activist Cookbook: Creative actions for a fair economy, united for a fair economy : a hands-on manual for organizers, artists, and educators who want to get their message across in powerful creative ways
Boyd, Andrew
NYPL Alibris
4. Beautiful Trouble
Boyd, Andrew (ed.)
Website for purchase
5. Re:imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World
Canning, Doyle; Reinsborough, Patrick
Is it what we do, or how we tell it, in this media-soaked culture? This book will help activists get stories in the media, connect and communicate with other activists, and run successful campaigns. "Providing resources, theories, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of activists, this resource shows how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social-change strategies and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in popular culture."
Alibris
6. Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide
Hunter, Daniel
Powells Amazon (.99 cents on Kindle!)
7. The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century
Leonard, Sarah; Sunkara, Bhaskar (eds.)
Powells
8. Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community
Minieri, Joan
Powells NYPL (requested NYPL buy more copies; check back later)
9. The Lifelong Activist
Rettig, Hillary
NYPL (requested NYPL buy more copies)
10. Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy
Thompson, Gabriel
Several reviews have called this a beginner's guide for organizing. "Thompson provides strong examples of direct action, relationship building and political education, the main components behind his theory of organizing," Adam writes on Goodreads.
Powells
Leonard, Sarah; Sunkara, Bhaskar (eds.)
Powells
8. Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community
Minieri, Joan
Powells NYPL (requested NYPL buy more copies; check back later)
9. The Lifelong Activist
Rettig, Hillary
NYPL (requested NYPL buy more copies)
10. Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy
Thompson, Gabriel
Several reviews have called this a beginner's guide for organizing. "Thompson provides strong examples of direct action, relationship building and political education, the main components behind his theory of organizing," Adam writes on Goodreads.
Powells
11. The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution
White, Micah, BLM co-founder
Black Lives Matter co-founder Micah White found that protest wasn't enough. But the lessons from BLM are invaluable (my god, have you read how the FBI systematically planned to destroy them?). We have to keep physically protesting, but we have to do more.
Alibris
ONLINE RESOURCES
"Black Lives Matter"
Read about and sign their petitions here. Type in your zip code to search for petitions in your area.
Boycott this list of Pro-Trump Businesses
"We Have 100 Days to Stop Donald Trump from Systematically Corrupting Our Systems"
This is a Vox piece about the importance of the last Trump-free days until January 20, 2017. Write your Congress reps, pressure them to help reject some of these nominations.
Watch this Keith Olbermann video. It will fire you up to pressure advertisers who run racist radio, protest at every opportunity, and never stop getting mad about the oligarchy. Get mad.
Trump Syllabus 2.0. This brilliant site leads us through the rise of Trump, not in a chronological sense, but in the context of history, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and party politics. It is fascinating, comprehensive and thoughtful. Highly recommend.
"Zinn Education Project"
"Training for Change"
"AORTA Collective"
"Beyond the Choir"
"Ruckus Society"
White, Micah, BLM co-founder
Black Lives Matter co-founder Micah White found that protest wasn't enough. But the lessons from BLM are invaluable (my god, have you read how the FBI systematically planned to destroy them?). We have to keep physically protesting, but we have to do more.
Alibris
ONLINE RESOURCES
"Black Lives Matter"
Read about and sign their petitions here. Type in your zip code to search for petitions in your area.
Boycott this list of Pro-Trump Businesses
"We Have 100 Days to Stop Donald Trump from Systematically Corrupting Our Systems"
This is a Vox piece about the importance of the last Trump-free days until January 20, 2017. Write your Congress reps, pressure them to help reject some of these nominations.
Watch this Keith Olbermann video. It will fire you up to pressure advertisers who run racist radio, protest at every opportunity, and never stop getting mad about the oligarchy. Get mad.
Trump Syllabus 2.0. This brilliant site leads us through the rise of Trump, not in a chronological sense, but in the context of history, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and party politics. It is fascinating, comprehensive and thoughtful. Highly recommend.
"Zinn Education Project"
"Training for Change"
"AORTA Collective"
"Beyond the Choir"
"Ruckus Society"
