Author, activist and protest organizer Lisa Fithian speaks about the half century of struggle documented in her book "Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Lo. Shut It Down. by. Lisa Fithian. · Rating details · 53 ratings · 17 reviews. A veteran activist's guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change. For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines /5. Lisa Fithian has shut down the CIA. She has occupied Wall Street, disrupted the World Trade Organization, and stood her ground in Tahrir Square. She has walk.
Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who has worked for justice since the s. Using creative, strategic nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience, she has won many battles and trained tens of thousands of activists while participating in a range of movements and mobilizations, including Occupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate globalization protests all over the world, the. Lisa Fithian, an anti-racist activist, spoke about her new book Shut It Down at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse on Friday. The book explores the historic role of civil disobedience and offers strategies for readers hoping to incite social change. As a guide to using the tools of nonviolence in social movements, one could hardly do better than to pick up Lisa Fithian's new book, Shut It Down. This book includes guides to planning campaigns and to staging all variety of actions in great detail, from how to plaster posters everywhere to how to relate to the police.
In Shut It Down Fithian shares historic, behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most important people-powered movements of the past several decades. She shows how movements that embrace direct action have always been, and continue to be, the most radical and rapid means for transforming the ills of our society. “Shut It Down traces the course of radical resistance in the United States through Lisa Fithian’s astounding experiences sowing the seeds of struggle. Rather than analyzing protest movements from afar, Fithian brings her readers into the streets in this essential chronicle of direct action from below.”. Lisa Fithian has shut down the CIA. She has occupied Wall Street, disrupted the World Trade Organization, and stood her ground in Tahrir Square. She has walk.
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