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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

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For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism

For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood.

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Activist Inspires BIPOC Representation for the Environment

This woman is empowering the next generation of BIPOC environmentalists. Nyaruot Nguany is an environmental activist in Maine who has had a lifelong passion for the outdoors. She attended an expeditionary high school and started out working on a farm and community garden.

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BIPOC EARTH: Environmental Justice Empowerment

BIPOC EARTH is an environmental justice collective focused on intersectional environmental justice that activates, supports, heals, and empowers Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities at The New School and beyond.

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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels.

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Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

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john a. powell: Beloved Community | Bioneers

As humanity faces global environmental and social collapse, our fear of the “Other” can be magnified by unstable contracting economies, radically shifting demographics, and new social norms. Can humanity overcome these divisions and come together to protect our common home? john a.

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Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature

Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes the opportunity for breakthrough—the opportunity to reimagine our future.

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Who Is Greta Thunberg?

When she was just fifteen years old, Greta Thunberg knew she wanted to change the world. With a hand-painted sign that read "School strike for the climate" in Swedish, Greta sat alone on the steps of the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change.

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Greta’s Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went On Strike to Save the Planet

It’s 20 August 2018, late summer in Stockholm, and it feels incredibly hot in the city. The TV news reports rising temperatures, and there have been numerous fires throughout Sweden.

Valentina Camerini

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference brings you Greta in her own words, for the first time.

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