We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World by Hasak-Lowy, Todd

A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to civil rights to the climate change movement

We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as, what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Václav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question "Why nonviolence?" by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

Author: Todd Hasak-Lowy
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 03/08/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781419760105
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.6
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 510516 / We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World

About the Author
Todd Hasak-Lowy is a writer of several books for young readers and a professor of creative writing and literature at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. He was formerly an assistant professor of Hebrew literature at the University of Florida and has a PhD from Berkeley. His books include Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You and 33 Minutes (MAX). Hasak-Lowy lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his wife and two daughters.