Social action

An empowering toolkit for activism from Gina Martin, who led a year-long campaign to make upskirting a criminal offence, after the police declined to prosecute a man who took pictures up her skirt at a music festival. BE THE CHANGE is an essential handbook for the modern activist, whether your ca...

Without any legal or political experience, I changed the law and made upskirting illegal in eighteen months. But this book is not about changing the law. It's not about me. This is yours. It's your handbook, your road map and your toolkit for pushing for change at absolutely any level. From using...

At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this text offers a case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades, Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement.

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the mod...

This comprehensive exploration of what works in campaigning is a practical 'how-to' guide for using the principles and strategies of effective campaigning as a new form of public politics. How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating and running successful campaigns. Written for the new...

In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn't afford tampons or sanitary towels. Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for the first time, funded by t...

With its gutsy, creative and rousing tales of ordinary people creating extraordinary change, 'Small Acts of Resistance' proves that it is possible - armed with a little ingenuity and a lot of passion - to bring down dictators, change unfair laws, fight injustice and raise one's voice in freedom b...

"Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what does social justice work look like for those of ...

In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin. In the words of the author, 'there is no freedom without rights and no rights without the freedom to exercise those rights'. T...