ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

How to Demand a Medical Breakthrough: Lessons from the AIDS Fight

By Nurith Aizenman — 2019

AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group’s tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.

Read on www.npr.org

FindCenter Post-Image
01:01:22

Living in Trust - The importance of trust for Awakened Activism

Four Trillium Awakening teachers discuss the radical trust that emerges from whole being realization, and how this trust enhances our ability to respond to life with more ease and effectiveness, including our activism.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
03:22

Video as Evidence: A WITNESS guide for citizens, activists, and lawyers

Video captured by citizens and activists can be instrumental in drawing attention to human rights abuses, calling for investigations and advocating for change. But many filmers want their videos to do more: they want their footage to expose abuse and help bring about justice.

Video
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Good Ally

The Good Ally is an urgent call to arms to become better allies against racism and provides a thoughtful approach, centering collective healing, to do so.

Book
Nova Reid
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action

Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators.

Book
Michael Gecan
2004
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Answer Is You: A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact

People from all walks of life yearn to do something that adds value to others and to be someone who makes a difference in their community and the world. Now Alex Amouyel is inviting you to become part of the solution.

Book
Alex Amouyel
2022
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they’re bound to inherit.

Book
Maureen Johnson (editor)
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist’s Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama.

Book
Randy Shaw
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

Book
Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
06:05

Activism for Healing and Thriving: Supporting Students of Color in Building Agency

Activism can be a source of healing but may also come at the expense of re-traumatization, burnout, and frustration.

Video
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
10:10

Activism as a way to heal | Tasha Brade | TEDxLondon

Tasha Brade is a the youngest member of the Justice4Grenfell campaign. She reveals how she suffered from PTSD in the weeks after she witnesses the fire at Grenfell Tower and that joining this campaigner was her way to heal.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

AIDS