justabean_reads 's review for:

Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism by Maude Barlow

4.0

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Intense college flashback to follow. I've always admired Barlow and her work with the Council of Canadians, so it was cool to put it in more context, and see what'd happened with her in the last few years. The book covers her work with feminism, anti-corporate efforts, and water protection, among other causes. It's a very hands-on, with each chapter describing how she got involved with a cause, why she cared, what the movements were able to do, and what work still needed to be done, and the book concluded with a general guidelines for effective activism. It's very much in the "you're not obliged to fix everything that's wrong with the world, but you are obliged to try to fix something" school of thought, and I appreciated it.