Beautiful Trouble

A Toolbox for Revolution

By: David Oswald Mitchell - editor, Andrew Boyd - editor

Narrated by: Sam Clymer

From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today's social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed out or written down.

Until now.

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Among the groups included are Agit-Pop/The Other 98%, The Yes Men/Yes Labs, Code Pink, SmartMeme, The Ruckus Society, Beyond the Choir, The Center for Artistic Activism, Waging Nonviolence, Alliance of Community Trainers Nonviolence International and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

Beautiful Trouble puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers.

©2012 Beautiful Trouble (P)2013 OR Books LLC

Contrived drivel

Let me summarize the whole book for you: Get a bunch of larpers/actors and a few losers with cameras to trick members of the public into thinking something is happening (which is just a performance) then publish the footage to trick even more members of the public into thinking your larp is real life. After that, go out and “ethically shoplift” some merchandise from an innocent shop owner. That is basically the whole book. If anyone speaks about this book in a positive light, you should reconsider your relationship with them.