Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution

From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer.

But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed out or written down. Until now.

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action.

“Beautiful Trouble is more than a book, it’s the serious artivists’ wikipedia.”
Ann Narkeh

“Should be required reading in every classroom.”
Judith Malina, founder of Living Theater

“Elegant and incendiary.”
Naomi Klein

” . . . presents creative ways of drawing attention to injustice.”
Ruth Latta, The Compulsive Reader

” … an encyclopedia for creative activism.”
Sandra Cuff, Vancouver Media Co-op

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