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Readers who enjoyed Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators by The Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective, Bettina L. Love, Mariame Kaba & Jay Gillen also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, Алексей Навальный
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020... -
![Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson]()
Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson
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![لا تصالح by أمل دنقل]()
لا تصالح by أمل دنقل
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsالأداء الصوتى الرائع للشاعر محمد الشموتى و مشروع صبا الصوت للقصائد و الكتب الصوتيةhttp://www.sebasound.com/أوقصيدة لا تصــالح - بصوت أمل دنقل: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1F0Hc... (1)لا تصالحْ!ولو منحوك الذهبْأترى حين أفقأ عينيكَثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما..هل ترى..؟هي أشياء لا تشترى..:ذكريات الطفولة بين أخيك وبينك،حسُّكما - فجأةً - بالرجولةِ،هذا الحياء الذي يكبت الشوق. -
![Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel, Kofi Klu]()
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel, Kofi Klu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause: capitalism. Our economic system is based on perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth... -
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![Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan]()
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette... -
![Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates]()
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
![Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.]()
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities...Categorized as:
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![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney]()
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis book contains accounts of the major lectures given by Walter Rodney in the late 1960s...Categorized as:
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![Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton]()
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party...Categorized as:
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![Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis]()
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRevelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes]()
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century... -
![Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter]()
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
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![Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti]()
Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
![Where Children Sleep by James Mollison]()
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Where Children Sleep” presents English-born photographer James Mollison’s large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world—from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India—alongside portraits of the children themselves... -
![Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson]()
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance... -
![Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade]()
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWait—what’s wrong with rights?Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law... -
![Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley, CeCe McDonald]()
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley, CeCe McDonald
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation. This expanded edition contains four new essays, including a foreword by CeCe McDonald and a new essay by Chelsea Manning.Eric Stanley is a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale]()
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBobby Seale, Chairman of th eBlack Panther Party, defendant in the Chicago conspiracy case, and one of the New Haven Panther 14, writes from jail about himself, his party, and its leadership- the black men who have changed themselves, have canged America, and in the course of it, have caused an enormouscontroversy about our liberties and institutions...Categorized as:
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![Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton]()
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1967, this revolutionary work defined a phrase that had become a central part of the Civil Rights vocabulary. In Black Power, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a viable political framework for reform...Categorized as:
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![Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh]()
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZionist Colonialism in Palestine traces the historical roots of the Zionist movement and the uprooting of the ancient Palestinian Arab people from their ancestral homeland...Categorized as:
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![Tom Morello at Minetta Lane Theatre: Speaking Truth to Power Through Stories and Song by Tom Morello]()
Tom Morello at Minetta Lane Theatre: Speaking Truth to Power Through Stories and Song by Tom Morello
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Can music change the world? Of course it can, it does every day. Music sure as hell changed me." - Tom MorelloRock god. Justice fighter. Rabble-rouser. Ivy Leaguer. An American renegade and fearless truth teller. Rage Against the Machine’s guitar virtuoso, Tom Morello, is many things, but perhaps he himself sums it up best: a one man revolution... -
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![Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture]()
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism...Categorized as:
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![Why I March: Images from the Women's March Around the World by Abrams Books]()
Why I March: Images from the Women's March Around the World by Abrams Books
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017--one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five million people in eighty-two countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S... -
![Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb]()
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis facsimile edition brings Charles Lamb's critically acclaimed and revered "Elia" essays back into print...Categorized as:
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![Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History by Steve Deace, Todd Erzen]()
Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History by Steve Deace, Todd Erzen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*Running Time => 2hrs. and 56mins... -
![Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici]()
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWritten between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization...Categorized as:
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![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end...
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