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There Is No Such Thing as a “Bad Drug” | Psychedcast Ft. Mark Haden

By Mark Haden — 2020

Mark Haden is the executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada as well as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Public and Population Health.

30:35 min

No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.

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Joseph P. Shapiro
1994
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.

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Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
2021
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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.

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Randy Shaw
2013
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone.

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Michelle Bowdler
2024
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Op-Ed: Why Storytelling is an Important Tool for Social Change

Providing ways for people to share their perspectives through storytelling initiatives can contribute to bigger changes in society and even help reduce prejudice.

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Emily Falk
2021
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Our Activism Is Too Focused on Performance to Acknowledge Allies Who Aren’t ‘Vocally’ Woke

We tend to “believe” in the woke-ness that is “performed” for us. “The more vocal you are, the more confident you appear. And because you appear more confident, you seem to have more influence on other people, who believe you’ll be great at practicing what you claim too,” she says.

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Devrupa Rakshit
2022
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Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership (Communication for Social Justice Activism) (Volume 2)

Ella Baker (1903–1986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades, she worked behind the scenes with people in vulnerable communities to catalyze social justice leadership.

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Patricia S. Parker
2020
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Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today

A powerful commemoration of notable moments of protest, Picturing Resistance highlights the important American social justice movements of the last seven decades.

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Melanie Light, Ken Light
2020
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The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

The Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well-informed and insightful” contribution (Choice Magazine).

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T. V. Reed
2024
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What Motivates Our Activism? My Activism?

An everyday, add-on benefit of fighting injustice is building trust in ourselves, exercising our moral fiber, and strengthening our moral muscles for the next decision point.

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Jonathan C. Lewis
2017
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