Why are we on the streets?

★Rights are not gifts that fall from the sky.

★It was achieved step by step and fought hard by the predecessors.

In December 2020, one month before the book was published, Joshua Wong, the former secretary-general of Demosisto Hong Kong, wrote a recommendation for the book before he was imprisoned for the fourth time: "I read that Lisa Fee, who is also an active social activist organizer, "Why Are We Taking to the Streets?" written by Lisa Fithian, contains many examples of civil disobedience and direct action, which are deeply touching to me. After all, she participated in the "Occupy Wall Street" and the New Orleans "Aid Together" Internet' and other social movement attempts actually indirectly influenced the organizers of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement and community movements..."

＊Lisa Feian is a legend in the human rights movement

＊Travel notes with the theme of fighting for human rights

＊Motives and ideas to defeat injustice

＊Everything you need to know about strategic thinking in action

*Practical tactics of social movements

*Best guidelines for social reform

*Forty years of social movement, thirty practical tools for social movement

From the Jasmine Revolution, the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the Umbrella Movement, to the Lily of the Wild student movement and the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, the consciousness of civil disobedience around the world has been rapidly awakening in the past century, and global politics and social values ​​have also been redefined. The author of this book, Lisa Fean, has participated in and organized many civil protests seeking social justice for more than 40 years. She is called "the most famous protest consultant in the United States" by the media. She has always been an advocate of civil disobedience and direct action. . In this book, she shared the history and behind-the-scenes stories of important movements in the past few decades. She bluntly said that taking direct action has always been (and will still be) the most radical and fastest way to change social ills.

She said: "I create crises because crises are the edge that makes change possible... When a government no longer respects the rights of its citizens and tries to pass laws that violate their fundamental rights, the people of that country have an obligation to stand up against it. …Even if we have to take risks occasionally, it’s only by being willing to step up creatively and strategically to protect what we love that we can achieve the transformation we want.”

Mother Jones magazine calls Lisa Fain “the country’s best-known protest consultant.” Fain’s testimony demonstrates that the best way to fundamentally and rapidly transform our society’s ills is to build on a foundation of determination. Non-violent direct action of faith, creativity and indomitable courage.

"Why do we take to the streets?" "Guiding, inspiring, and not short of wisdom, it points out that civil disobedience is not just an act of resistance. It is a spiritual pursuit that allows us to regain our humanity and protect those we love.