To that end, drop your recs under this post.
Books, films, plays, speeches of the many American resistance movements.
Civil rights, Abolition, the labor movement, any wave of feminism, indigenous rights.
I have a shortlist of labor books I often return to, let’s make a masterlist of more
Books, films, plays, speeches of the many American resistance movements.
Civil rights, Abolition, the labor movement, any wave of feminism, indigenous rights.
I have a shortlist of labor books I often return to, let’s make a masterlist of more
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Mel Buer
Woke up with an anxiety that I’m sure other folks are feeling just as acutely.
Not much to add to the discourse except that we’ve made it through shitty times before, and we will do so again.
Critically, our own American movement history gives us the blueprint for resistance. Time to study up
Not much to add to the discourse except that we’ve made it through shitty times before, and we will do so again.
Critically, our own American movement history gives us the blueprint for resistance. Time to study up
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How to Survive a Plague
March (John Lewis’s graphic memoir)
The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi (fiction)
Ripening by Meridel Le Seurer (labor and socialist essays)
In Search of Fatima Ghada Karmi
(Palestinian memoir)
The Trinity of Fundamentals by Wisam Rafeedi (Palestinian auto fiction)
by Brian Merchant
Fiction: Standing Fast by Harvey Swados
Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change by Kylie Flanagan
Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation edited by Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus, Nathan Schneider, and Elandria Williama
Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice edited by @cbmilstein.bsky.social
Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by @ejeris.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming by Liz Carlisle
Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World by @kateschapira.bsky.social
Confederates In the Attic - Tony Horwitz
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Nelson Lichtenstein