When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World

Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM Act, the People’s Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street, the fight for a $15 minimum wage—these are just a few of the remarkable movements that have blossomed in the past decade, a most fertile and productive era of activism. Now, in a visually rich and deeply inspiring book, the leaders and activists of these and other movements distill their wisdom, sharing lessons of what makes—and what hinders—transformative social change.

Longtime social activist Greg Jobin-Leeds joins forces with AgitArte, a collective of artists and organizers, to capture the stories, philosophy, tactics, and art of today’s leading social change movements. When We Fight, We Win! weaves together interviews with today’s most successful activists and artists from across the country and beyond—including Patrisse Cullors-Brignac, Bill McKibben, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Karen Lewis, Favianna Rodriguez, Rea Carey, and Gaby Pacheco, among others—with narrative recountings of strategies and campaigns alongside full-color photos. It includes a foreword by Rinku Sen and an afterword by Antonia Darder.

When We Fight, We Win! will give a whole generation of readers the chance to celebrate and benefit from a remarkable decade of activism—a decade that shows just how ripe these times are for social transformation.

• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
• Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution
• Social Movements
• Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty (The Teaching for Social Justice Series)
• Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
• Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
• The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
• The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology)
• Poverty in America: A Handbook
• Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire