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TEDxRamallah - Alice Walker - How I Learned to Grow a Global Heart

By Alice Walker — 2011

19:49 min

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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Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals

Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.

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Jonathan Smucker
2017
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Grassroots Activists Must Consider the Personal Costs of Digital Campaigns

Widespread use of social media has made it easier to mobilize collective action, yet citizen activists struggle to navigate these digital tools and increasingly report feeling burned out.

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Delia Dumitrica, Mylynn Felt
2020
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Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America

In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism.

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Jeffrey Stout
2025
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Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement

For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective.

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Nora Gallagher, Lisa Myers
2016
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Peace Pilgrim's 28-Year Walk For 'A Meaningful Way Of Life'

In 1953, Mildred Norman set off from the Rose Bowl parade on New Year's Day with a goal of walking the entire country for peace. She left her given name behind and took up a new identity: Peace Pilgrim.

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Zak Rosen
2013
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Anxiety and Grief Comes with Climate Change

The environmental movement is doing more to address the psychological toll on activists and volunteers, encouraging resilience and self-care to counteract anxiety and grief over planetary damage.

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Alex Smith
2021
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