Summary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REL

Gandhi Bhattacharjee, Tara.

Summary: An inspirational and vivid behind-the-scenes biography of the Gandhi family and the tumult of India's independence by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. The granddaughter of both Gandhiji and Rajaji, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee's childhood was peopled by freedom fighters and leaders who laid the foundation for an independent India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, TARA BHA

Hamilton, John

Summary: Presents the history of the United States Army Special Forces, commonly called the "Green Berets," how they are trained, their gear, and some of the various jobs they do.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 356.167 HAM

DiFranco, Ani.

Contents: Joe Hill (instrumental) -- Stupid's song -- The most dangerous woman -- Stupid's pledge -- Direct action -- Pie in the sky -- Shoot or stab them -- Lawrence -- Bread and roses -- Why come? -- Unless you are free -- I will not obey -- The long memory -- The silence that is me -- Joe Hill -- The saw-playing musician -- Dump the bosses -- The internationale.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Righteous Babe Records 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIF

Montalván, Luis Carlos

Summary: "Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalván takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national conversation about service dogs and PTSD. In this spectacular new memoir, he and Tuesday bring their healing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTALVAN, LUIS CARLOS MON

Houtman, Jacqueline

Summary: Bayard Rustin was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement. He was arrested on a bus 13 years before Rosa Parks and he participated in integrated bus rides throughout the South 14 years before the Freedom Riders. He was a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., teaching him the techniques and philosophy of Gandhian nonviolent direct action. He organized the March on Washington in 1963, one of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RUS

Margolin, Jamie

Summary: "The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: GO, Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320.0835 MAR

Solnit, Rebecca

Summary: With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 SOL

Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GAN

Summary: Uses an encyclopedia-style format to discuss topics including the future of food, water conservation, and holistic problem solving, and offers ways to improve and adapt to current environmental situations around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7 WOR

Magson, Adrian

Summary: Marc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympathetic to the West, Tzorekov has close links with Vladimir Putin and is planning to use his influence with the President to improve relations between Russia, the USA and the European Union. However, there are those with vested interests in maintaining...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAG

Xu, Kenny

Summary: "Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals-written in the name of diversity-excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Going beyond the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 XU