**Named one of Rough Trade's Best Books of 2013
**
According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows: First
they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you
win!
In Fight the Power!, comics authors Sean Michael Wilson and Benjamin
Dickson team up with illustrators Hunt Emerson, John Spelling, and Adam
Pasion to show how this process has been played out again and again
throughout history--and has slowly but surely led to hard-won rights for
the people along the way. Focusing on the English-speaking nations,
Wilson and Dickson chronicle the struggles of the Luddites and Swing
Riots in the early 1800s, through the Irish Rebellions that lasted
through 1922; from the suffragettes in 1918 to Rosa Parks and the bus
boycott of the mid-1950s; from the trial of Nelson Mandela to the Occupy
movement that has only just begun. By illuminating the variety of
protests--and the valuable connections among them--through an accessible
art form, Fight the Power! shows that there is a point to the
struggle, fight by fight, win by win.