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Intentions

The Resistance Reading List is a database of 50+ truth tellers, elders, and ancient voices who can help us resist and rebuild in these troubling times.

This reading list is holistic — it blends **the political and personal, the scientific and the spiritual, the witchy and wise, the poetic and integrative.

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Explore The Resistance Reading List

This reading list is organized into nine sections, each featuring foundational truth tellers and recommended texts from their work.

• See sections ✨

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Going Deeper

• To learn more about how this list was compiled → jump here
• To suggest a truth teller to add to this list → jump here
• To explore ways to go deeper → jump here

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James Baldwin

Read: *The Fire Next Time* (1963)

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Angela Davis

Read: *Freedom is a Constant Struggle* (2016)

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Robert Reich

Read: The System: Who Rigged It and How to Fix It (2020)

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Howard Zinn

Read: *A People’s History of the United States* (1980)

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Cornel West

Read: *Democracy Matters (2004)*

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Noam Chomsky

Read: *Requiem for the American Dream* (2017)

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