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Nonviolent Resistance Proves Potent Weapon

By Michelle Nicholasen — 2019

Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns

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Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law

Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how―despite this risk―many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights.

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Kevin Escudero
2025
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Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

“If I didn’t fight, who would?” Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, Judy had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life.

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Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
2025
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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

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Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries
2021
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Activism for Healing and Thriving: Supporting Students of Color in Building Agency

Activism can be a source of healing but may also come at the expense of re-traumatization, burnout, and frustration.

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2020
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Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity.

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Jamie Margolin
2020
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Steal this Country: A Handbook for Resistance, Persistence, and Fixing Almost Everything

A walk-the-walk, talk-the-talk, hands-on, say-it-loud handbook for activist kids who want to change the world! Inspired by Abbie Hoffman’s radical classic, Steal this Book, author Alexandra Styron’s stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by young people who...

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Alexandra Styron
2025
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