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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy
5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals
How to Not Be Offended
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle
The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New
How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community
5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op
4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm
The Tao Te Ching: Wisdom for Aspiring Leaders and Change-Makers of Every Kind
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action
The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever
Guide to Building a Solidarity Network
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Activist Philosophy & Reflection
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
Liberation Theory: A Working Framework
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
Working Assumptions and Guidelines for Alliance-Building
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
The Polarization Trap
How to Disagree
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)
How To (Not) Change Minds On The Internet
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
The Trap of Righteousness
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Are You Tired of the Social Justice Outrage Machine?
Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements
The Problem With Judgement
Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
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