Community & Social Change

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Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors offer a visionary but practical proposal to provide a guaranteed minimum income--it not only avoids creating a new government program or increasing taxes, but also gives the entire citizenry more influence in the economy.

A lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns --teaching us how to achieve real progressive change.

From Jonathan Franzen, one of our preeminent writers and thinkers, comes a brilliant, searing essay collection that calls for us to take better care of our planet and one another in these troubled times.

Radical author Jensen's controversial analysis of the dark side of the anarchist movement--including the recent history of allegations of rape and abuse--is, like many of his books, a reflection of the violence inherent in western society that is both destructive and movement suppressing.
In Derrick's words, from the introduction:

From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance

The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask.

A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan OConnor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world.