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Times of great change did not occur by man's desire for change, but through protest and persistence. Across the globe, it seems we are in an era of protest and drive. Not since the '60s have we seen political divides and awareness of this magnitude, and it is shaping all aspects of our day to day life. While some feel lost in despair and fear, we can look to the past and rise up ourselves. Protest changes the world like nothing else has to date. What change do you want to fight for?

The “From Protest to Power” podcasts, produced by the SNCC Legacy Project, are envisioned as a series with each episode telling a part of the continuing Freedom struggle. The central theme of the visual podcasts is the ongoing effort of the Black community to achieve the power to define its existence in America. Viewers of the podcast should know that most of the stories being told and the history being shared are based on the lived experiences of those who are engaging in the fight for human and civil rights.

A riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money, she found herself at the door of the...

An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2020 The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who combatted racism and prejudice through her music. Odetta channeled her anger and despair into some of the most powerful folk music the world has ever heard...

Es geht um Durchhalten, Mut und Solidarität! Als Neukölln-Komplex wird eine Terrorserie im Berliner Stadtteil Neukölln bezeichnet, bei der Neonazis seit 2009 mindesten um die 200 Anschläge verübten. Dazu zählen die Morde an Burak Bektaş und Luke Holland, etliche Brandstiftungen und Drohungen, sowie Sachbeschädigungen durch zahlreiche gesprühte nationalsozialistische Symbole und extrem-rechte Sticker. Trotz klarer Hinweise auf bekannte Neonazis aus Neukölln und ihre Netzwerke erfolgte so gut wie keine Aufklärung dieser Taten. Bekannt wurden zudem zahlreiche Fälle von Fehlverhalten ...

In 1967, Joseph Mark Glazner, a 22-year-old American writer, left Los Angeles behind forever and became one of the first war resisters to go to Canada during the extremely divisive Vietnam War. Life After America is Glazner's upbeat, personal memoir about his first two years in Canada as an FBI fugitive, new immigrant, tabloid writer, journalist, and John Lennon's accidental muse. Glazner, an internationally acclaimed crime novelist, recounts with dark humor and the eye of a thriller writer his nearly bungled escape from the US.

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable.