Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution

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%, Code Pink, The Yes Men/Yes Labs, The Center for Artistic Activism, SmartMeme, Beyond the Choir, Waging Nonviolence, The Ruckus Society, Association of Community Trainers and Nonviolence International. Contributors include Rae Abelea, Phil Aroneanu, Peter Barnes, Jesse Barron, Andy Bichlbaum, Nadine Bloch, Kathryn Blume, L.M. Bogad, Josh Bolotsky, Mike Bonanno, Andrew Boyd, Molly Campbell, Doyle Canning, Chuck Collins, Samantha Corbin, Yutaka Dirks, Steve Duncombe, Mark Engler, Simon Enoch, Jodie Evans, John Ewing, Bryan Farrell, Janice Fine, Lisa Fithian, Cristian Fleming, Elisabeth Ginsberg, Stan Goff, Arun Gupta, Silas Harrebye, Judith Helfand, Daniel Hunter, Sidd Joag, John Jordan, Dmytri Kleiner, Sally Kohn, Steve Lambert, Todd Lester, Zack Malitz, Nancy Mancias, Duncan Meisel, Dave Oswald Mitchell, Tracey Mitchell, George Monbiot, Brad Newsham, Gaby Pacheco, Michael Pineschi, Mark Read, Patrick Reinsborough, Gideon Rosenblatt, Joshua Kahn Russell, Leonidas Martin Saura, Levana Saxon, Maxine Schoefer-Wulf, Nathan Schneider, Kristen Ess Schurr, John Sellers, Sean Sellers/Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Rajni Shah, Brooke Singer, Matt Skomarovsky, Andrew Slack, Phillip Smith, Matthew Smucker, Starhawk, Eric Stoner, Virginia Vitzthum, Harsha Walia and Jefferey Webber. Beautiful Trouble puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers. www.beautifultrouble.org