How to Be a Troublemaker (What I've Learned from Sixty Years of Activism)

From one of Canada's best-known activists: illuminating and inspiring anecdotes and lessons for a new generation of troublemakers

Best known in Canada for defending pro-choice hero Dr. Henry Morgentaler from an attacker in the 1980s, feminist, journalist, and writer Judy Rebick has been a brave and creative troublemaker for six decades, spanning a wide diversity of struggles, from the local to the global, women's liberation to anti-racist and Indigenous solidarity, anti-globalization to anti-Zionism, grassroots activism to national politics. She has also taken part in journalism both inside and outside the mainstream.

In How to Be a Troublemaker, Rebick reflects on her years of experience in light of a new rise of activism at a time that both challenges all the gains of her generation and offers the possibility for even more transformational change than the 1960s. Curating lessons and stories of her participation in multiple movements—from her student activism in the 1960s to her life as a feminist fighter in the 1980s and '90s, her attempts to reform the NDP, and her experience as an anti-Zionist Jew supporting Palestinian liberation—Rebick shares what she's learned from a lifetime of activism to inspire and inform young activists today.