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Announcing Beautiful Rising — a global toolbox for changemakers!
Exciting new partnership will collect & share lessons from activists in the global south Our second of three big announcements of the summer! (Here’s the first.) Over the next two years, the Beautiful Trouble collective will be partnering with ActionAid Denmark and organizers involved in rights-based activism and campaigns in Zimbabwe, …Continue Reading
Beautiful Solutions — Call for submissions!
UPDATE: Beautiful Solutions & This Changes Everything partner to highlight new economy solutions. Call for Submissions BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: A Toolbox for the Future “For ten years, I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me to contribute to just this kind of book.” —Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies …Continue Reading
Spanish edition launches — Bella Revuelta!
Hello Troublemakers! We’re thrilled to tell you about Bella Revuelta: La Caja de Herramientas Para Hacer La Revolución—the brand-new hot-off-the-presses SECOND international version of Beautiful Trouble. Published by Milrazones, this Spanish version of BT’s Pocket Edition was officially launched in March 2014, with several events in Madrid and Barcelona that featured …Continue Reading
Big training experiment also a big success
“This workshop was so clearly approached from a place of beauty, positivity and love that it created a solid foundation for everyone to feel great about woking together, dreaming together, and imagining potential. Struggle is out. Beauty is in.” —Garret O’Connor, Change to Win Lead Organizer In a first time collaborative effort, …Continue Reading
New BT-inspired column at Waging Nonviolence
Dear Troublemakers, Our partners-in-trouble, Waging Nonviolence, are launching a new column entitled “Beautiful Trouble” that is inspired by, you guessed it, the growing world of Beautiful Trouble. The first essay, “When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns”, was published on January 15th, 2014, to coincide with the birthday of …Continue Reading
Debut of BRAND NEW chapters of Beautiful Trouble
Dear Troublemakers, We have exciting news — Beautiful Trouble has begun rolling out BRAND NEW CONTENT to expand and deepen our approach to the art and science of creative action. The first new chapter is Tactic: Light Brigade, which showcases how the national coalition Overpass Light Brigade bears witness to …Continue Reading
Troublemaking with alter-globalization movement Attac
Beautiful Trouble co-editor Andrew Boyd traveled to Paris this December and met with members of Attac, the “alter-globalization” movement that rose to prominence in the late 90s and has since spread to 34 countries on 4 continents. United behind the motto “Another world is possible”, Attac chapters fight for …Continue Reading
1st BT international edition — Bela Baderna: Ferramentas Para Revolução!
Hello Troublemakers! We’re thrilled to let you know about Bela Baderna: Ferramentas Para Revolução—the brand-new hot-off-the-presses first-ever international version of Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. Published by Edições Ideal, this Portuguese version of the Pocket Edition of Beautiful Trouble brings the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest in …Continue Reading
TEDx talk with BT co-editor Dave Mitchell
This June 4th, Beautiful Trouble co-editor Dave Oswald Mitchell presented some core tenets of creative troublemaking through a discussion of “The Grammar of Social Change.” His TEDx talk, given to an audience of 300 in Saskatoon, Canada, is now available through TEDx Regina. In the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth …Continue Reading
“Food Fight!”
With the “Fight for Fifteen” campaign for a living wage for fast food workers just starting to get traction in Los Angeles, SEIU Local 721 hosted a Beautiful Trouble training for their entire organizing staff. Trainers Nadine Bloch, Hector Flores and Diana Pei Wu worked alongside BT Training Director Gan …Continue Reading
