Activism & Organizing

Editor Daniel Burton-Rose
A powerful illumination of a forgotten chapter of the radical social movements of the 1970s in which diverse interests combined forces in a potent rejection of business as usual in the United States.

Ben Morea and Ron Hahne
Ten issues of Black Mask (1966–1967), together with a generous collection of the leaflets, articles, and flyers generated by Black Mask & UATW/MF, plus Free Press and Rolling Stone reports on UATW/MF.

Robin Bell
Covering a span of 30 years, More Than a Witness documents the origins, activism, and musical events of the punk/activist organization Positive Force DC.

Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in the Middle East to the Midwest of the US.

David Sheen
An audiovisual manifesto, four years in the making on four continents, proposing earthen homes as the healthiest housing, transforming our suburban sprawl into eco-villages.

Staughton Lynd
Unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd.

Editors: Diana Denham and the C.A.S.A Collective
In 2006, Oaxaca, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy. En Espanol.

Jeremy Scahill
This Award winning journalist takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.

Turbulence Collective
Sometimes all it takes to get moving again is a nudge in a new direction... We think now is a good time to ask the question: What is winning? Or: What would—or could—it mean to "win?"

Editors: Carlos Martinez, Michael Fox, and JoJo Farrell
Interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela's social movements. These interviews offer a compelling oral history of Venezuela's democratic revolution.

Gord Hill
This slim volume chronicles the resistance by Indigenous peoples, which limited and shaped the forms and extent of colonialism.

Klaus Viehmann
Prison Round Trip is a reflection on prison life and how to keep one's sanity and political integrity behind bars.

Linda Evans and Eve Goldberg
Follow the money and find how the prison-industrial complex fits into the New World Order of free trade and imprisoned people, the war on drugs, and capital flight.

Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in Iraq to convention protests and election fraud in the US.

Bob and Jenna Torres
In a revised and rewritten second edition, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World is your guide to embracing vegan freakdom. Come on, get your freak on!

Editor: Matt Meyer
Collecting dozens of documents from the past three decades of struggle to free US political prisoners, this resource book is designed for action!

Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox
Beyond Elections is a journey that takes us across the Americas to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is democracy?

Jimmy O'Halligan, scott crow, and Ann Harkness
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.

Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity.

From the front lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville --Dispatches 02 takes you where the mainstream media cannot go.

Dispatches 01 collects 72 minutes of radical investigations, analysis and on the ground video from the Big Noise team working on four continents.

Editors: Gilda Haas, Tomas Benitez, and Carol Wells
This book combines full-color graphic arts and grassroots voices to describe the harm of gentrification and development in central L.A., and how people fight to protect their communities.

Jen Angel
An analysis of the birth and life of Clamor Magazine.

Big Noise Films
Deserter is the journey of Ryan and Jen Johnson--a deserting soldier and his young wife--as they flee across the country to seek refugee status over the Canadian border.

Big Noise Films
In 1994, the Latin Kings became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.