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Books to Read if you are Interested in Activism, Social Change & Justice

A comprehensive and broad range of books to read if you are Interested in activism, campaigning, organising, social change and justice.

The Power of Music for Social Change: Tips on Using Live Music to Promote Action

A plan and recommendations for musicians on using live music to promote action for social change from Face the Music Collective.

(Dis)solution Magazine

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, (Dis)solution is an Australian journal published both online and in print. Founded out of a demand for radical, critical voices—particularly those of emerging writers, artists, and activists—it challenges the destructive, ecocidal systems shaping the 21st century.

Book cover - Text reads 'Rules for Radicals' Saul D. Alinsky

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

Rules for Radicals is a book by community activist and writer Saul D. Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change.

Book cover for Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food

Food Activists and Street Kitchens: Cooking Revolutions in the Popular Pot

Virginia Tognola chronicles how practical solidarity in the form of street kitchens and the “popular pot” has not only enabled migrants and others in Argentina to survive but also raise issues and campaign against sub-standard living conditions.

$Book cover - Title reads 'The town that said no to AGL: How Gloucester was saved from coal seam gas'. The title overlays a photo of a person wearing a hat with their arms held up in a cross in front of them.|An older man with a hat sit nexts to a younger woman with a dog. He is holding a sign that reads 'Your grandchildren's future depends on You divesting from fossil fuels'.|A line of signs planted in grass next to safety witches hats. A larger sign reads 'Peaceful Vigil Site and Information. Two signs read 'Lock the Gate' and 'No coal seam gas.'|A group of older ladies posing for photo in a group and smiling. They are dressed mainly in yellow and are holding protest signs. One reads 'Gloucester Knitting nanas agains gas'.|Three protestors posing for photo holding cardboard signs. A man with a hat holding a sign that reads 'Tell em they're dreaming'. A woman wearing sunglasses and a hat holds a sign that reads 'How's the serenity in a gasfield'. There is a lock the gate triangle logo poster in the background behind the man's head.|Three protestors hold a yellow and black banner that reads 'If they frack$

Groundswell Gloucester: Fighting and Winning against Fracking

Insights into how a grass roots community campaign based in Gloucester Valley, NSW scored a major victory against the Coal Seam Gas industry.

Labor Power and Strategy: How to Read Womack

The 2023 book Labour Power and Strategy, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek, is centred around a lengthy interview with labour organiser and historian John Womack Jr in which he argues for the importance of ‘strategic workplace organising’

Working Tirelessly for Peace and Equality: Civil Resistance and Peacebuilding in Liberia

Examining approaches of the various actors involved in civil resistance and peace building throughout each phase of conflict in Liberia.

Book cover. Title reads The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements. Photo of two hands holding a ball representing earth. There is a glow coming from the hands and earth.

Environmental Movements and Activism around the World: Book and Videos

A book and a series of in depth videos based on each chapter about Environmental Movements and Activism around the World.

How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy

Civil resistance-Moving from dictatorship to democracy. Negotiations & elections are the breakthroughs that lead to more democratic outcomes.

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