A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara. It’s an illustrated alphabet book that uses this classic teaching format to inspire and inform children.

It is a book worth having and sharing with children for whom activism is endemic to their responsibilities as citizens.

 

Innosanto Nagara is best known as the founder of Design Action Collective. His work is grounded in the philosophy: “do not design in a vacuum.” As a lifelong activist embedded in organizing communities, he always insists that the power of design be harnessed in the service of social change, and in partnership with boots-on-the-ground organizing efforts: “The other side spends millions of dollars annually pushing their agenda. But they are pushing a boulder uphill. They are selling ideas that are against people’s interests. They are selling products that people don’t need. In a world where we do judge a book by it’s cover, we do have to engage them on that battlefield. But we can do it for a lot less because we are pushing for what people want and need. We can dislodge that boulder. But to do that, we have to engage.”