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Activism/Service & grit

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How to Become a Youth Activist!

Over the past five years, I have had some INCREDIBLE opportunities to speak out and get my voice heard as a young person. I discuss my five top tips for being a youth activist that I wish I'd know when I started getting involved in youth voice.

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Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action

Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators.

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Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists

If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you.

Courtney E. Martin

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FindCenter Because sometimes the most holy thing we can say is: No. Not on my watch.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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Meditation and Resilience

Meditation includes a collection of techniques and benefits that can be looked at through the lens of resilience.

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What Can I Do? The Path from Climate Despair to Action

In 2019, daunted by the looming disaster of climate change and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda asked herself one question: What can I do? Jane Fonda, one of the most influential activists of our time, moved to Washington, D.C.

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The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life—and Saved an American Farm

The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers.

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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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Social Workers Are Paragons of True Grit

There are scores of frontline social workers whose tenacity will never be appreciated, will not get made into a movie, will never get written up in a progress note. That’s true grit.

Marisa Markowitz, Daniel Pollack

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