We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781419741111)

A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement.

Todd Hasak-Lowy's We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves?

Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and V當lav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question "Why nonviolence?" by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

"Nonviolence may have been the greatest invention of the twentieth century, more important than nuclear fission or genetic coding. It offers us the chance to build a working twenty-first century, and since young people will have to lead that fight, this book is a crucial gift!" --Bill McKibben, climate activist and author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Includes black-and-white photographs

Author: Todd Hasak-Lowy
ISBN-10: 141974111X
ISBN-13: 9781419741111
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.6
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 510516 / We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2020
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 91
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 35
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2020