Ranked: What It Means to be an Activist

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What It Means to be an Activist

This is a list about activism.  The life and times of the activists.  Their influence on the causes they take up.  The sacrifices they make.  

General

1. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein

Animal Rights

1. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba

Ecological Sustainability

1. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston

Economics

1. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
2. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
3. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Politics

1. Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson

Race/Ethnicity

1. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

Sovereignty 

1. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
2. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
3. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
4. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
5. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
6. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville

Sovereignty / Fiction

1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)

Women Activists

1. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
2. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
3. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
4. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane

Women Rights / Fiction

• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin