“Elegant and incendiary.” —Naomi Klein

“A crucial resource for change-makers.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories are now
in a deck of 100+ cards YOU can play!

Use this deck to get creatively unstuck, design an action that pops, flashcard your way through social movement history, learn & teach organizing, win grassroots victories, or just have fun staying up late with friends playing Cards for Humanity.

COMPONENTS:

• 132 cards

  • 5 suits of cards: Tactics, Principles, Theories, Stories & Methodologies

  • Plus wild cards, eternal debate cards, game-play cards, and even three strategy cards to get your group’s strategic campaign planning process going!

• Booklet

• Bullhorn & 100,000 people not included

Everything you need to “think outside the box” is inside the box!

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“Beautiful Rising offers insights and lessons for creative resistance, making it a crucial resource for change-makers.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South. Based on face-to-face jam sessions held in Yangon, Amman, Harare, Dhaka, Kampala, and Oaxaca, you can find the collective wisdom of more than a hundred grassroots organizers from five continents collected in one remarkable book. It’s everything you need for a DIY uprising of your own.

publication 2017 • 272 pages • illustrations throughout

paperback ISBN 978-1-68219-112-5 • ebook ISBN 978-1-68219-113-2

“Beautiful Trouble is more than a book, it’s the serious artivists’ wikipedia.” — Ann Narkeh

From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed out or written down. Until now.

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action.

publication June 2012 • 474 pages • illustrations throughout

paperback ISBN 978-1-935928-57-7 • ebook ISBN 978-1-935928-58-4

Пытаетесь излечить этот безумный мир, но уже устали от бесконечных пикетов, митингов и петиций? Тогда как насчёт электорального партизанства, творческого срыва мероприятий, мистификации или акций прямого действия?

Эта карманная энциклопедия креативного активизма содержит тактики, принципы, теоретические концепции и примеры, которыми поделились более 50 активистов со всего мира, чтобы помочь вам организовать любое событие, от скрытой инсценировки до революции. Остаётся только попробовать.

Издательство «Радикальная теория и практика» https://rtpbooks.info

Бесплатная загрузка (PDF)

A continuation of the historic Pan-African struggle for freedom, justice, and dignity across the continent, renewed to tackle the particular challenges Africa faces today.

In recent years, Africans have been especially successful in their resistance against the status quo — just think of the people’s uprisings in Angola, Sudan, Algeria, the Gambia, and Ethiopia. And yet few movements are turning to African struggles to harness this wisdom learned at such great cost.

We have seen this before. So much of human knowledge — from agriculture to metaphysics — finds many roots in the African Motherland, but is now being explored predominantly through the lenses of the most wealthy and violent civilizations. Failure to remain attentive to the wisdom of the continent is part of the reason modern forms of knowledge have led humanity down a destructive path.

To fill this void, an extraordinary cross-section of African youth gathered in 2018 in Arusha, Tanzania (a town historically significant for Pan-Africanists) to exchange their hard-earned lessons and share stories of their resistance. At this midpoint between Cape Town and Cairo, these youth fashioned the foundation for a theory they dubbed New Pan-Afrikanism.

New Pan-Afrikanism posits that the distinct problems Africa faces in this neoliberal age can be effectively confronted by the unique strengths of young Africans. Whether it’s employing “Baraza” as a method of collective decision making or amplifying “Lamentation” as a protest tactic, African youth are reclaiming the continent’s traditions as modern tools for social change.

In this edition, Beautiful Trouble seeks to capture the diversity of these innovations and insights, and make them readily available (in English, Arabic, French, or Portuguese) to activists and frontline defenders across Africa and the rest of the world.

Download the English version by adding this to your cart.
Also see the Portuguese version.