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Shut It Down

Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance

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Shut It Down

By: Lisa Fithian
Narrated by: Tia Rider
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A veteran activist's guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change.

For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant”, Fithian has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, and the uprisings at Standing Rock and in Ferguson.

For anyone who wants to become more active in resistance or is just feeling overwhelmed or hopeless, Shut It Down offers strategies and actions you can take right now to promote justice and incite change in your own community. In Shut It Down Fithian shares historic, behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most important people-powered movements of the past several decades. She shows how movements that embrace direct action have always been, and continue to be, the most radical and rapid means for transforming the ills of our society. Shut It Down is filled with instructions and inspiration for how movements can evolve as the struggle for social justice continues in the Trump era and beyond.

While recognizing that electoral politics, legislation, and policy are all important pathways to change, Shut It Down argues that civil disobedience is not just one of the only actions that remains when all else fails, but a spiritual pursuit that protects our deepest selves, and allows us to reclaim our humanity. Change can come, but only if we’re open to creatively, lovingly, and strategically standing up, sometimes at great risk to ourselves, to protect what we love.

©2019 Lisa Fithian (P)2019 Chelsea Green Publishing
Activists Civics & Citizenship Civil Rights & Liberties Human Rights Philosophy Politics & Government Revolutions & Wars of Independence Social Sciences
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Excellent primer on nonviolent direct action

This is a great listen that teaches the basics of nonviolent direct action through storytelling.

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…against this book. Truly disappointed. Such a jaded and warped perspective from someone who believes they are a warrior for justice.

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