On Monday June 18 at 7:00pm, join us to celebrate the Ottawa book launch of Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution (OR Books, 2012). The launch will be held at Octopus Books Centretown, 251 Bank St, 2nd Floor (Bank at Cooper).
Join us for a presentation by Beautiful Trouble co-editor Dave Oswald Mitchell & Beautiful Trouble web maker Phillip Smith, followed by a discussion of the state and...
[read more] On Monday June 18 at 7:00pm, join us to celebrate the Ottawa book launch of Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution (OR Books, 2012). The launch will be held at Octopus Books Centretown, 251 Bank St, 2nd Floor (Bank at Cooper).
Join us for a presentation by Beautiful Trouble co-editor Dave Oswald Mitchell & Beautiful Trouble web maker Phillip Smith, followed by a discussion of the state and future of creative activism.
Beautiful Trouble is a book and web toolbox that puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers. Stay afterward for light refreshments and good-hearted plotting with your fellow beautiful troublemakers. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
This event is sponsored by Octopus Books, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canadian Labour Congress, Public Service Alliance of Canada-National Capital Region and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, with media sponsorship from rabble.ca.
Learn more about the project at
http://beautifultrouble.org/
Check out the new video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5speyfdmrXs
About Beautiful Trouble:
Why now?
From the Arab Spring to the Quebec student strike and beyond, a new global people's movement is being born. The impossible suddenly seems possible, and all around the world ordinary people are trying out new tools and tactics to win victories where they live. In the shadow of austerity and ecological crisis, the urgency of this political moment demands resources that will transform outrage into effective action. Beautiful Trouble is a toolbox for the next revolution.
Who is it for?
Beautiful Trouble is both sophisticated enough for veteran activists and accessible enough for newbies. Both artists and activists will find it useful, as it showcases the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy. Beautiful Trouble is for everyone who longs for a more beautiful, more just, more livable world – and wants to know how to get there.
Is it a book or a website?
Both! The project consists of short, interrelated modules – creative tactics, action design principles, case studies, and theoretical frameworks – that together comprise an accessible matrix of best practices and ideas in creative campaigning. The website will soon include the core content of the book as well as a growing array of additional modules, resources, profiles, debates and much more. With your help, the site will evolve in real time with new social movements and their latest tactical innovations.
What makes it unique?
Beautiful Trouble not only presents cutting-edge content in an innovative modular structure, it was assembled in a unique collaborative and distributed manner. With many contributors from around the world participating, the entire project was assembled in the cloud, in an open, collaborative process. We also hosted four "book sprints" – weekend-long gatherings where we gathered face-to-face and locked ourselves in a room to write, write, write! Beautiful Trouble’s publisher is OR Books, a nimble, progressive, independent publisher with an innovative post-print business model.
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