Transforming Injustice
(In order of publication)
Letters That Breathe Fire: El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn
A revealing look at literary life in the 1960s in letters from some of its stars.
Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule
Edited by Sonya E. Pritzker
An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life.
DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice
A personal account of unmet needs in assisted living and hospice, Judy Karofsky aims to spark discussions about new approaches for America’s aging population and family decision makers.
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
By: Alice Rothchild
A remarkable autobiography—written entirely in free verse—of Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine.
See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love
Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops, each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can create.
The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life
By Muriel Fox
A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women’s movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man built mainly from her own hundreds of letters, clippings, notes, and photographs that she archived in her “Feminism Files.”
Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance
By Merideth M. Taylor, Foreword by Dr. Rex M. Ellis
A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland. The work is a poetic interwoven collage of scenes and community of characters that reflect the diversity of experience, “silences,” and incompleteness of the historical record.
Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty— 30th Anniversary Edition
By Anne Herbert, Paloma Pavel, Mayumi Oda
Foreword by Desmond Mpilo Tutu
A parable of hope and peace for all ages with beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, Random Kindness offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing “we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves,” this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence.
That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions
Edited by Leigh Sugar
Poetry and prose by artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught workshops in U.S. criminal legal institutions, this is a book for anyone seeking to understand the prison industrial complex from a human perspective.
All author royalties from this book will be donated to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts opportunities to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.
Zoned Out! Race Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, (Revised Edition)
Edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse
Zoned Out! shows how gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color have occurred in Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown, neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color, and looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning and develop housing in the public domain.
A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement
A definitive analysis of the impacts of the Iraq antiwar movement told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series, is a collection of environmental and climate activists whose stunning color portraits Robert Shetterly painted with the intention of honoring their work and bringing them to a wider audience.
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind
They lived the dream of Manifest Destiny; their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer.
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti
Talking to the Girls is a written memorial to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, bringing together stories from writers, artists, activists, scholars, and family members of the Triangle workers to speak on this singular, tragic event that had a remarkable impact.
Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
The first volume of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today’s issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. Shetterly’s paintings, as well as profiles of those portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to recognize the shortcomings of America’s history, but most importantly, individuals who offer their visions of a better world moving forward.
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California
By Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters
In the Struggle tells the stories of eight notable public scholars of California’s San Joaquin Valley, and describes their persistent engagement spanning generations of sustained endeavor, a dogged war in which workers and scholars together repeatedly took on the powerful agricultural industry, the political machines, and even the universities.
Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power
By Ernest Thompson and Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Introduction by Coleman A. Young
Foreword by Dominic T. Moulden
Afterword by Molly Rose Kaufman
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War
By Ron Carver, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty
Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, presenting first-hand accounts, oral histories, and underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance.
Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
A disability rights activist tells the story of her liberation from oppressive standards of normalcy, showing that freedom comes not through cure, but through organizing to end exclusion from public and social life.
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race
Carl Anthony interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American. By connecting the struggles for social and racial justice to the universe, it creates a new story for our time.
Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition
By Mat Schwarzman
Illustrated by Keith Knight
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grassroots social change.
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
By Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD
Foreword by Carlos F. Peterson and Mary Travis Bassett
Root Shock examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.
From Foreclosure to Fair Lending: Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit
Edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires
This book informs a renewed movement for fair lending and fair housing. Leading advocates and specialists examine strategic initiatives to realize objectives of the federal Fair Housing Act as well as state and local laws.
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Edited by Stephen Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs’ lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs’ economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs’ insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Practical guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through written letters, articles, reports and public testimony.
Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture
By James Jiler
Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker’s Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism—the Green House and GreenTeam run by James Jiler for the Horticultural Society of New York.