Beautiful Trouble co-editor Andrew Boyd traveled to Paris this December and met with members of Attac, the “alter-globalization” movement that rose to prominence in the late 90s and has since spread to 34 countries on 4 continents. United behind the motto “Another world is possible”, Attac chapters fight for social, environmental, and democratic alternatives to the globalization process.

Hello Troublemakers!

We’re thrilled to let you know about Bela Baderna: Ferramentas Para Revolução—the brand-new hot-off-the-presses first-ever international version of Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. Published by Edições Ideal, this Portuguese version of the Pocket Edition of Beautiful Trouble brings the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest in a volume that fits in your pocket as you head to the streets of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, or Brasilia.

This June 4th, Beautiful Trouble co-editor Dave Oswald Mitchell presented some core tenets of creative troublemaking through a discussion of “The Grammar of Social Change.” His TEDx talk, given to an audience of 300 in Saskatoon, Canada, is now available through TEDx Regina.

With the “Fight for Fifteen” campaign for a living wage for fast food workers just starting to get traction in Los Angeles, SEIU Local 721 hosted a Beautiful Trouble training for their entire organizing staff.

Beautiful Trouble’s new Director of Training, Gan Golan, will co-host a training session entitled “Art is a Hammer: Reshaping the Narrative Through Cultural Intervention” at the 2013 gathering of Netroots Nation, June 20 – 23 in San Jose, California.

Hello Troublemakers!

Since we launched Beautiful Trouble, we’ve been telling people that the book is a training program just waiting to happen. Well, the wait is over: it’s happening!

Hello Troublemakers!

We’re thrilled to tell you that we’ve just launched the brand new pocket edition of Beautiful Trouble. Now you can dig into the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest in a volume that fits in your pocket as you head to the streets.

Praised as “elegant and incendiary” by Naomi Klein, the Beautiful Trouble creative action toolbox is currently looking for a volunteer web wrangler to help take our site to the next level.

Beautiful Trouble contributor Daniel Hunter (tactics: Public filibuster and Nonviolent search and seizure) has just published Strategy & Soul: a campaigner’s narrative of fighting billionaires, corrupt officials, and Philadelphia casinos.

We are excited to launch an experimental navigation interface for the
 contents of the Beautiful Trouble book. We wanted to play around with
 alternative ways of seeing the book’s contents and making connections 
between the different entries.

The latest edition of the Re-visiones features a bilingual review of Beautiful Trouble, in English and Spanish. Re-visiones is a dual language magazine published annually in various formats on topics of art, visual theory, aesthetics and visual culture.

One of the most exciting developments on the Beautiful Trouble front in recent months has been the growing interest we’ve seen in using the book as a teaching resource — either as a textbook in the classroom or a handbook in activist trainings.

Dear Beautiful Trouble supporters,

This holiday season be like Santa and give the gift of Beautiful Trouble to your favorite troublemaker.

Not only did Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein star in the “Do the Math” tour — 350.org’s national tour of US this fall to organize campuses to divest from the fossil fuel industry — so did Beautiful Trouble.

Whole Living Daily, a subsidiary of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, talks with Beautiful Trouble’s co-editor and author Andrew Boyd to describe how to temporarily take over a parking space and create your own mini-park .

Troublemakers, join contributing author Yutaka Dirks at two events this week to celebrate the Calgary launch of Beautiful Trouble!

Join BT contributing author Yutaka Dirks in Kitchener, Ontario this Monday October 15th to celebrate the grand opening of the WPIRG Resource Centre.

On Friday nights once a month, artists, techies, and activists crowd into a small but lively space in the heart of Bangkok to debate some of Thailand’s hottest social issues.

Over the next couple of weeks we are teaming up with local Beautiful Trouble authors and partner organizations in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen to celebrate the long-awaited publication of Beautiful Trouble.

Flash mobs, glitter bombs, occupations, hijacked press conferences and pot-banging protests. From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge.