Organizing and Community
Non-fiction books that help us make the world around us a better place -- understanding our history, while planning and defending our future.
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The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Red Media)
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorse...
View full detailsTo Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and careWhen #BlackLivesMatter emer...
View full detailsNo Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement
A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for all, with gripping reporting...
View full detailsReconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis―featuring a new preface by the author.“Coursing with moral urgency ...
View full detailsLike a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration
Like A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America’s incarceration system.These powerful poems of witness ...
View full detailsOpinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essa...
View full detailsOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Awards:One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022.PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020.One B...
View full detailsWe Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers, 1)
New York Times Bestseller“Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets a...
View full detailsConflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountabi...
View full detailsCity on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution.Through the long, hot su...
View full detailsWhen We Rise: My Life in the Movement
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 19...
View full detailsUnapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical ...
View full detailsPrequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed publ...
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