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Jamie Wheal: Bringing Meaning & Hope To A World Gone Mad

A Life of Greatness

Why are we here and what do we do now? Together lets explore our deepest inspirations, heal our pain and learn how to truly reconnect with each other.

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The Subtle Power of Nonviolent Activism

Violent responses to social justice protests require protesters to be even more focused on peaceful tactics.

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The Monitor’s Editorial Board
2020
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Nonviolent Resistance Proves Potent Weapon

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

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Michelle Nicholasen
2019
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Embodiment as Self-Care in Activist Movements

Embodied practice creates the potential for a unifying perspective and it can inspire new ways for activists to participate in community outreach, sisterhood, and self-care.

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Katelyn Espenshade
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How Can Activism Be Self-Care?

I learned very early that to survive in this broken world there is a never-ending need to “support, nurture, and protect what we hold dear” to keep it from being damaged, hurt, or destroyed ……which also includes myself.

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Anne Melia
2021
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Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice

Caring - Volunteering - Always too much work to do - Burnout Does this sound familiar? Burnout is a vicious cycle. Naomi Ortiz went through this cycle many times before she realized: This Is Not Working. Sustaining Spirit shows how she broke the cycle of burnout and brought balance into her life.

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Naomi Ortiz
2018
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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965

The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing.

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Cherisse Jones-Branch
2021
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It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior

The wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian’s nine decades is generously shared in It’s in the Action, the civil rights legend’s memoir of his life and times in the movement.

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C. T. Vivian, Steve Fiffer
2025
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How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

A lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial and economic justice, it is important to remember that marching is only one way to take to the...

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George Lakey
2018
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Community Organizing Definition (The Secret behind Social Change)

What is Community Organizing? What is COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION? What does COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION mean? Watch this video to learn effective Community organizing (inspiring social change through community organizing).

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2019
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Does Grassroots Organizing Still Work?

“If we don’t engage, we have only ourselves to blame,” says Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, in this short interview from the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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2017
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