A is for Activist

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Innosanto Nagara is originally from Indonesia, but moved to the US in 1988 to study zoology and philosophy at UC Davis.

I love that there is now a book I can share with my granddaughters that teaches a new vocabulary about human and social justice values - and workers' rights! It introduces terms like activism, democracy, justice, feminism, and freedom, all while teaching the alphabet. A former colleague posted a photo of a children’s book as her Facebook profile picture – A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara. The image shows a large crowd of people in solidarity at a candle light vigil, and many of the faces can actually be recognized as prominent, historical figures.Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Fun, funny, exquisitely illustrated and brilliantly written with a message that is sure to resonate with kids. Are you inviting the reader to a discussion about how left wing groups tear themselves apart in never ending tests of idealogical purity while right wingers have no problem voting along party lines, whatever their personal squabbles? He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations before founding the Design Action Collective. Children will naturally be empathetic, compassionate, respectful, and kind hearted with proper mentorship and without the need of ideological suggestions at such a young age.

Mijn dochter is al gepredestineerd om groenlinks te gaan stemmen, en dit boek maakt die kansen er niet kleiner op.

It's positive and uplifting, the illustrations are bright and include representations of diverse people, lots of them children, many of them smiling.

Certain pages taught me things, other pages made me well up, all the pages made me glad my children would be hearing these messages from a young age. Nagara visibly works to include under-represented communities and, according to a Publisher’s Weekly review, has stated that “The statistics on racial diversity alone in children’s books are appalling, not to mention gender, LGBTQ families, and progressive values in general.In this vulnerable age, we do not brainwash them with terminology they do not understand or tell them what is the right opinion to have on an issue (whether it's an opinion we support or disagree with). Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Upon graduation, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations, before founding the Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California, that is dedicated to "serving the Movement. The page’s background is light images of a brain and the words at the top read, “O is for Open minds Operate best/ Critical thinking Over tests/ Wisdom can’t be memorized/ Educate!