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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”

-CESAR CHAVEZ

 

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”

-MAHATMA GANDHI

 

“Poverty and War have no excuse.”

-VANA BONTA 

 

“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution. Revolution is but thought carried into action.”

-EMMA GOLDMAN 
 

“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”

-GLORIA STEINEM

 

“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and wellbeing.”

-EMMA GOLDMAN
 


 n More Information About Activists and Activism
n More Information About Movers and Movements
 



RESOURCES FOR ACTIVISTS

n Service & Leadership: The Call of Leadership
n I Am An Activist

n Learning to Give

n Service Learning
n Change
n Humanity Initiative
n The Elders Project
n Metropolitan Group: Power of Voice
n Discover Human Rights

n Credo Action: Working for Change

n Free Child Project
n Idealist
n Make the Difference Network
n Net Squared

n Non Profit Technology Network

n Human Rights & Social Justice Booklist
n Fair Trade Booklist
n HBO Documentary Films

n Media for Social Change
n Activism in Art and Posters
 



BOOKS FOR ACTIVISTS

n Activism & Social Change: Lessons for Community & Local Organizing by Eric Shragge

n The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear by Paul Loeb

n Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time by Paul Loeb

n Stone Soup for the World: Life Changing Stories of Kindness & Courageous Acts of Service by Marianne Larned

n That's Not Fair: Teachers Guide to Activism With Young Children by Ann Pelo & Fran Davidson

n Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights by David Forsythe

n Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945 by Winston Langley
 

 

ACTIVISM IN THE MEDIA
Activism and Social Change in Popular Movies
n Gandhi / Ben Kingsley

n Norma Rae / Sally Field, Beau Bridges

n Erin Brockovich / Julia Roberts, Albert Finney

n All the Presidents Men / Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman

n Silkwood / Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

n City of Joy / Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins

n China Syndrome / Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglass

n Born on the Fourth of July / Tom Cruise

n Malcolm X / Denzel Washington

n Mississippi Burning / Gene Hackman, Willem Defoe

n Philadelphia / Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington

n Shindlers List / Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Finnes

n North Country / Charlize Theron

n Milk / Sean Penn, Josh Brolin

n To Kill a Mockingbird / Gregory Peck
 n Hotel Rwanda / Don Cheadle
 n Good Night and Good Luck / David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney
 n Time to Kill / Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson
 n Amistad / Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey
 n Killing Fields / Sam Waterston, John Malkovich
 n In My Country (Country of My Skull, Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa ) / Samuel L Jackson, Juliette Binoche

 Activism and Social Change in Documentary Films
n Eyes on the Prize

n With God on Our Side

n The US vs John Lennon

n Bowling for Columbine

n Taxi to the Dark Side

n Fahrenheit 9/11

n For the Bible Tells Me So

n Times of Harvey Milk

n Sicko

n Standard Operating Procedure

n Gate of Heavenly Peace

n Crawford

n Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

n Laramie Project

n Right America: Feeling Wronged

n The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
n Freeheld
n Black List Vol 1
n Black List Vol 2
n Cry Freedom

Activism and Social Change in Popular Music

n Wikipedia: Protest Songs
n Pop Matters: Great Protest Songs
n About Folk Music: Classic Protest Songs
n 1980s Protest Songs
n Lesson Planet: Protest Songs
n 1960s Protest Songs

n Rate Your Music: Top 30 Protest Songs
n Indopedia: List of Protest Songs
n Rolling Stone: Best Protest Songs

 

CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO HOPE

 Paul Loeb's book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, is an inspiring resource for activists. In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana activist with a paralyzing physical disability, writes about overcoming political immobilization, drawing on her history with the Peace Corps and Mother Teresa. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, finds value in seemingly doomed or futile actions taken by oppressed peoples. Rosemarie Freeney Harding recalls the music that sustained the civil rights movement, and Paxus Calta-Star recounts the powerful vignette of an 18-year-old who launched the overthrow of Bulgaria's dictatorship. Many of the essays are new, others classic works that continue to inspire. Together, these writers explore a path of heartfelt community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope. The voices collected in The Impossible Will Take a Little While will help keep us all working for a better world despite the obstacles.

 

n Learn More About Paul Loeb's Book
 



PLAYING FOR CHANGE


Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race.


n Playing for Change Website
View the music videos:
n Playing for Change - Making Songs Around the World
 n Stand By Me - Playing for Change
n War / No More Trouble - Playing for Change
n One Love - Playing for Change
 n Don't Worry - Playing for Change
n Chanda Mama - Playing for Change
n Bring it on Home - Playing for Change
n Change is Gonna Come - Playing for Change
 



HUMAN RIGHTS INSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS

n John Lennon: Imagine
n Imagine: Children of the World
n Imagine One World
n Rosa Sat
n You've Got a Friend
n One World / Love One Another
n Garth Brooks: We Shall Be Free
n New National Anthem for South Africa
n Kim Weston: Lift Every Voice (Black National Anthem)
n Marvin Gaye: What's Going On

n I Hear Them All
n We Are the World
n Peace: Make a Difference
n Help Somebody

n Put a Little Love in Your Heart
n Lean on Me - African Childrens Choir
n You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban & African Childrens Choir

 

HUMAN RIGHTS VIDEO PROJECT


The Human Rights Video Project is a national library project created to increase the public's awareness of human rights issues through the medium of documentary films. To that end, we have curated a collection of 12 documentary films on human rights issues. The project also encourages collaborations between public libraries and human rights advocacy organizations to present film screenings and discussion programs. The project was developed by National Video Resources in partnership with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. Major funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

 n Learn More About the Human Rights Video Project

 

 

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