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Book SynopsisAn essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challengesofour time, from oneofthecountry?s leading organizers and a co-creatorofBlack Lives Matter ?Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.??Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New YorkerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time ? Marie Claire ? Kirkus ReviewsIn 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called ?a love letter to Black people? on Facebook, in the aftermath oftheacquittaloftheman who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote:
Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. Withthespeed and networking capacitiesofsocial media, #BlackLivesMatter becamethehashtag heard ?roundtheworld. But Garza knew eventhen that hashtags don?t start movements?people do.
Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Garza had spentthebetter partoftwo decades learning and unlearning some hard lessons about organizing.Thelessons sheoffers are different fromthe ?rules for radicals? that animated earlier generationsofactivists, and diverge fromthecharismatic, patriarchal modeloftheAmerican civil rights movement. She reflects instead on how making room amongstthewoke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to fight fortheworld we all deserve.
This isthestoryofone woman?s lessons through yearsofbringing people together to create change. Mostofall, it is a new paradigm for change for a new generationofchangemakers, fromthemind and heart behind oneofthe most important movementsofour time.
