1. DISASTERS ARE OPPORTUNITIES
1. Rahm Emanuel, “Let’s Make Sure This Crisis Doesn’t Go to Waste,” Washington Post, March 25, 2020.
2. Edward McClelland, “Why Rahm Can’t Shake Reaganism,” Chicago Magazine, August 27, 2020, https://www.chicagomag.com/news/august-2020/why-rahm-cant-shake-reaganism.
3. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), xiv.
4. Ian Schwartz, “Rahm Emanuel: Pay People Who Lost Retail Jobs to ‘Become a Computer Coder,’“ RealClearPolitics, November 7, 2020, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/11/07/rahm_emanuel_pay_people_who_lost_retail_jobs_to_become_a_computer_coder.html.
2. RESIST
1. John F. Harris and Sarah Zimmerman, “Trump May Not Be Crazy, but the Rest of Us Are Getting There Fast,” Politico, October 12, 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/12/donald-trump-anxiety-disorder-pscyhologists-221305.
2. Mychal Denzel Smith, “A Biden Win Won’t Cure My Trump-Era Depression,” New York Times, September 11, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/opinion/trump-biden-2020-depression.html.
3. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015), 26.
4. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (New York: Harper, 2015), 20.
3. TAKE BACK THE STREETS
1. The best account of this is in Peter Linebaugh and Markus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013).
2. Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra, 216.
3. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Abigail Adams,” February 22, 1787, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04–07–02–0187.
4. Julia Reinstein, “The Woman in ‘Lose Yo Job’ Video Told Us How It Changed Her Life,” Buzzfeed, June 8, 2020, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/lose-yo-job-viral-video-woman-johnniqua-charles.
4. PATRIOTISM ISN‘T THE ANSWER
1. Geoffrey Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 133.
2. Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom, 152.
3. Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom, 203.
4. Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom, 173.
5. REDEFINE IDEALS TO MEET YOUR DEMOCRATIC ASPIRATIONS
1. Brian Naylor, “Read Trump’s Jan. 6 Speech, a Key Part of Impeachment Trial,” February 6, 2021, NPR, https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial.
2. Billy House, “McCarthy Opposes Impeachment, Privately Floats Other Responses,” Bloomberg, January 11, 2021, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021–01–11/mccarthy-tells-gop-colleagues-he-opposes-trump-s-impeachment.
3. Donald Nielson, “The Mashpee Indian Revolt of 1833,” New England Quarterly 58, no. 3 (September 1985): 400–420.
4. Daniel Mandell, “We, as a Tribe, Will Rule Ourselves: Mashpee’s Struggle for Autonomy, 1746–1840,” Colonial Society of Massachusetts 71 (2003), https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/1407#ren548, accessed August 20, 2021.
5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments,” available at National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/declaration-of-sentiments.htm.
6. Frederick Douglass, “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Nation, July 4, 2012, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-slave-fourth-july-frederick-douglass.
6. POLITICIZE TRUTH
1. Katy Steinmetz, “How Your Brain Tricks You into Believing Fake News,” Time, August 9, 2018, https://time.com/5362183/the-real-fake-news-crisis; Kurt Anderson, “How America Lost Its Mind,” The Atlantic, September 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231.
2. David W. Blight, “‘For Something Beyond the Battlefield’: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War,” Journal of American History 75, no. 4 (March 1989): 1160.
3. Blight, “‘For Something Beyond the Battlefield,’“ 1163.
4. Blight, “‘For Something Beyond the Battlefield,’“ 1161.
5. Blight, “‘For Something Beyond the Battlefield,’“ 1169.
7. IMAGINE UTOPIA
1. Robert Owen, “A New View of Society,” in A New View of Society and Other Writings (New York: Penguin, 2019), 40.
2. Chris Jennings, Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism (New York: Random House, 2017), 123.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 117.
8. QUESTION ELITES
1. Vivian Gornick, Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 16.
2. Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (New York: Mother Earth Publishing, 1910), 65.
3. Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays, 65.
4. Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010), 398.
5. Gornick, Emma Goldman, 4.
9. MAKE PEACE
1. Michael Kazin, “America and the Great War,” Raritan 32, no. 1 (Summer 2004): 76.
2. Kazin, “America and the Great War,” 77.
3. Jane Addams, Peace and Bread in Time of War (New York: MacMillan, 1922), 142.
4. Roger Baldwin, “Conscience at the Bar,” The Survey 41 (October 1918–March 1919): 154.
5. Kazin, “America and the Great War,” 83.
10. BUILD A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
1. Joe Garofoli, “Biden Promises a Return to Normalcy: Is America Ready to Go There?,” SF Chronicle, January 20, 2021, https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Biden-promises-a-return-to-normalcy-Is-America-15883179.php.
2. Philip A. Cusick, A Passion for Learning: The Education of Seven Eminent Americans (New York: Teachers College Press, 2005), 150.
3. Roger Lee Ray, Progressive Faith and Practice: Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2014), 116.
4. Dorothy Day, The Commonweal 55, Issues 13–26 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952), 637.
5. Gary Dorrien, Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition (London: Wiley, 2011), 375.
11. ORGANIZE
1. Eugene Debs, “Speech of Acceptance,” International Socialist Review (October 1912).
12. MAKE POLITICAL ART
1. “What’s in President Trump’s Fiscal 2021 Budget?,” New York Times, February 10, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/economy/trump-budget-explained-facts.html.
2. Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (New York: Norton, 2009), 23.
3. Michael Gold, Jews Without Money (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), 311.
4. “I Aimed for the Public’s Heart and . . . Hit It in the Stomach, Chicago Tribune, May 21, 2006, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006–05–21–0605210414-story.html.
5. Linda Gordon, “Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist,” Journal of American History 93, no. 3 (2006): 705.
6. Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 146.
13. PAINT A BLOODY PICTURE
1. John Hersey, “Hiroshima,” New Yorker, August 31, 1946, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima.
2. Hersey, “Hiroshima.”
3. Stefanie Glinski, “Afghan Families Torn Apart by Drone Strikes,” Guardian, December 6, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/dec/06/afghan-families-torn-apart-drone-strikes-picture-essay.
4. Heather Stringer, “Psychologists Respond to Mental Health Crisis at the Border,” American Psychological Association, July 2018, https://www.apa.org/news/ap2018/border-family-separation.
14. POLITICIZE GRIEF
1. Brittany Bernstein, “Kamala Harris Told Jacob Blake She Was ‘Proud’ of Him, Lawyer Says,” Yahoo! News, September 8, 2020, https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-told-jacob-blake-130728218.html.
2. Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Bensen, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (New York: One World, 2003), 135.
3. Till-Mobley and Bensen, Death of Innocence, 139.
4. Devery Anderson, Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015), 251.
5. Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President in Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney,” College of Charleston, June 26, 2015, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/26/remarks-president-eulogy-honorable-reverend-clementa-pinckney.
16. REVOLUTIONIZE IDENTITY
1. Yuki Noguchi, “For Many #MeToo Accusers, Speaking Up Is Just the Beginning,” NPR, November 5, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/772223109/for-many-metoo-accusers-speaking-up-is-just-the-beginning.
2. Alex Press, “Women Are Filing More Harassment Claims in the #MeToo Era. They’re Also Facing More Retaliation,” Vox, May 9, 2019, https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2019/5/9/18541982/sexual-harassment-me-too-eeoc-complaints.
3. Nona Willis Aronowitz, “The First Time Women Shouted Their Abortions,” New York Times, March 23, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/sunday/abortion-speakout-anniversary.html.
4. Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012), 210.
5. Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2003), 69.
6. Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, 66.
7. Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, 65.
17. MAKE AN ANGRY SPECTACLE
1. Steven Webster, “Angry Americans: How Political Rage Helps Campaigns but Hurts Democracy,” The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/angry-americans-how-political-rage-helps-campaigns-but-hurts-democracy-145819.
2. German Lopez, “The Reagan Administration’s Unbelievable Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” Vox, December 1, 2016, https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids.
3. Deborah Gould, Moving Politics: ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 226.
4. Phillip Picardi, “‘George Bush, Serial Killer’: ACT UP’s Fight Against the President,” Out, December 1, 2018, https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2018/12/01/george-bush-serial-killer-act-ups-fight-against-president.
18. EMBRACE INTERCONNECTEDNESS
1. Keith Makoto Woodhouse, The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), 133.
2. James Sterba, Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights, and Practical Applications (New York: Prentice Hall, 1995), 348.
3. Woodhouse, The Ecocentrists, 195.
4. Woodhouse, The Ecocentrists, 196.
19. EMBRACE PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
1. Katherine Schaeffer, “6 Facts About Economic Inequality in the United States,” Pew Research, February 7, 2020, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/07/6-facts-about-economic-inequality-in-the-u-s.
2. Sarah Jones, “Bloomberg Repeatedly Blamed Homeowners for the Recession,” New York Magazine, March 2, 2020, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/bloomberg-absolved-banks-blamed-homeowners-for-recession.html.
3. Jones, “Bloomberg Repeatedly Blamed Homeowners for the Recession.”
20. THINK HISTORICALLY
1. Tom Precious, “Jobs and Services in Jeopardy If Cuomo Budget Cuts Stand and Federal Money Doesn’t Come,” Buffalo News, January 21, 2021, https://buffalonews.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/jobs-and-services-in-jeopardy-if-cuomo-budget-cuts-stand-and-federal-money-doesnt-come/article_0912654e-5c20–11eb-9664-cfebaa3e9fc7.html.
2. Theodore Schleifer, “Andrew Cuomo Is Leaning on Tech Billionaires to Help New York Rebuild,” Vox, May 6, 2020, https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/6/21249410/coronavirus-andrew-cuomo-bill-gates-eric-schmidt-tech-billionaires.
3. Diane Rutherford, “Teachers Union, Education Advocates Voice Concerns as Cuomo Looks to ‘Reimagine’ Education,” 7 News, May 5, 2020, https://www.wwnytv.com/2020/05/05/teachers-union-education-advocates-voice-concerns-cuomo-looks-reimagine-education.
4. Michael Wines, “After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote,” New York Times, January 30, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/republicans-voting-georgia-arizona.html.
5. James Baldwin, “As Much Truth as One Can Bear; to Speak Out About the World as It Is, Says James Baldwin, Is the Writer’s Job,” New York Times, January 14, 1962, https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/14/archives/as-much-truth-as-one-can-bear-to-speak-out-about-the-world-as-it-is.html.