Do it anyway : the next generation of activists
Martin, Courtney E.2010
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If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin's rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference in our hugely complex, globalized world?
Main title:
Do it anyway : the next generation of activists / Courtney E. Martin.
Author:
Imprint:
Boston : Beacon Press, c2010.
Collation:
xxiv, 199 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction "I Am Hungry for One Good Thing I Can Do" Rachel Corrie, peace activist, Olympia, Washington An Altar Boy with a Gun Raul Diaz, prison reentry social worker, Los Angeles Recovery Mission Maricela Guzman, veterans' activist, Los Angeles The Boxer Emily Abt, filmmaker, New York City It Ain't Easy Being Green Nia Martin-Robinson, environmental justice advocate, Washington, D.C., via Detroit Class Action Tyrone Boucher, radical philanthropist, Philadelphia Power Becomes Her Rosario Dawson, actor and activist, Los Angeles via New York City Born to Teach Dena Simmons, eighth grade teacher, Bronx, New York Conclusion Good Failure Acknowledgments Further Resources
ISBN:
9780807000472 (pbk alk paper)
Dewey class:
303.4840922B303.4840
LC class:
HM831
Language:
English
BRN:
288976