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Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

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Nation Books (2005), Paperback, 192 pages

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Very enlightening and inspiring for such a short book. I like how it talked about activism as a process with no true victory or defeat. However, I felt that, for my job, this was also a downside of the book. Sometimes there are deadlines that require a more pragmatic activism approach. For example, if there's an election coming up, you can't be content just to educate everyone about the issues and say you won because you changed a few peoples' minds. You need to identify whose minds can be changed or who are undecided because they aren't informed about the issue and do heavy persuasion on them. Then, when you "win," you can take as much time as you need to educate opponents. (Yes, I do political work, so I find this relevant.)

Mandatory hippie joke: The publishers should run a promotion: free Birkenstocks with purchase. ( )
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