"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. Among
the groups included are Agit-Pop/The Other 98%, The Yes Men/Yes Labs,
Code Pink, SmartMeme, The Ruckus Society, Beyond the Choir, The Center
for Artistic Activism, Waging Nonviolence, Alliance of Community
Trainers and Nonviolence International.
Contributors include Rae Abileah, Ryan Acuff, Celia Alario, Phil
Aroneanu, Peter Barnes, Jesse Barron, Andy Bichlbaum, Nadine Bloch,
Kathryn Blume, L.M. Bogad, Josh Bolotsky, Mike Bonanno, Andrew Boyd,
Kevin Buckland, Margaret Campbell, Doyle Canning, Samantha Corbin,
Yutaka Dirks, Steve Duncombe, Mark Engler, Simon Enoch, Jodie Evans,
John Ewing, Brian Fairbanks, Bryan Farrell, Janice Fine, Lisa Fithian,
Cristian Fleming, Elisabeth Ginsberg, Stan Goff, Arun Gupta, Silas
Harrebye, Judith Helfand, Daniel Hunter, Sarah Jaffe, John Jordan,
Dmytri Kleiner, Sally Kohn, Steve Lambert, Anna Lee, Stephen Lerner,
Zack Malitz, Nancy Mancias, Duncan Meisel, Matt Meyer, Dave Oswald
Mitchell, Tracey Mitchell, George Monbiot, Brad Newsham, Gaby Pacheco,
Mark Read, Patrick Reinsborough, Simon Roel, Joshua Kahn Russell,
Leonidas Martin Saura, Levana Saxon, Maxine Schoefer-Wulf, Nathan
Schneider, Kristen Ess Schurr, John Sellers, Rajni Shah, Brooke Singer,
Matt Skomarovsky, Andrew Slack, Phillip Smith, Jonathan Matthew
Smucker, Starhawk, Eric Stoner, Jeremy Varon, Virginia Vitzthum, Harsha
Walia, Jefferey Webber and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
Beautiful Trouble puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers."