The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide: - Making Change Through Nonviolent Action - (Dandelion Trilogy) Soft cover - 2015

You'll love this lively, engaging journey into the heart of The Dandelion Insurrection's story of nonviolent action!

All around the world, common, everyday people work for justice, equality and freedom using the nonviolent tools of Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jesus, and Cesar Chavez. You can learn these resistance strategies and apply them in your community. Millions of people are and now you can too.

This fun to use study guide covers the basic dynamics and strategies of nonviolent action. Discover how to plan and build campaigns, become familiar with Gene Sharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action, envision how to weaken the pillars of support of your opponent and learn to develop effective strategy for the issues your community faces.

Taking lessons off the page and into our lives, award-winning author, activist and nstrategic nonviolence trainer Rivera Sun guides us through the skills and strategies that create the thrilling adventure of The Dandelion Insurrection. Drawing on historical examples of nonviolent political, economic, environmental and racial justice struggles around the world and using your favorite scenes from the book, this study guide brings the novel and strategies of effective nonviolent resistance to life in an exciting way.

The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide offers students and elders, parents and families, church groups and social justice organizations a fun and friendly way to dive into the reality of making change through nonviolent action. Featuring the newest research, the guide is useful for people just becoming interested in activism as well as seasoned life-long activists.

Use this study guide on your own, or gather your friends, neighbors, and associates. Divided into easy to use sections you can use this book as a wonderful way to build community or take your book club on a great new adventure. Together you will discover how ordinary people can make extraordinary change

"When fear is used to control us, love is how we rebel!" The DandelionInsurrection

Reviewers call The Dandelion Insurrection "The handbook of the coming revolution"... because of the prophetic nature of its story and the newest research in nonviolent civil resistance it illustrates. Both the novel and the study guide can be enjoyed separately, together they are a remarkable look at what is possible and how we can get there.

Rivera is happy to work with classes and groups in learning and using the strategies of nonviolent civil action to create social justice. She holds regular on-line classes and schedules in depth work for geoups. Visit riverasun.com.