The Fight Back
Will be published approx. on 15. October 2026
288 pages
E-Book
978-0-7535-6293-2 (ISBN)
Description
Take Action to Save Democracy!
The Fight Back is 40,000 words of actionable guidance for citizens everywhere who refuse to let democracy collapse. It is a book about agency-and what you can do now. More than anything, it's a book about courage: at a time of creative destruction, it's time to create the world we want.
We now face three convergent crises. The crisis of truth: tech platforms and AI have destroyed our information ecosystem, making shared reality impossible. The crisis of order: the United States-the nation that built the post-war international system-is now dismantling it, launching illegal military operations, killing its own citizens in the streets, arresting journalists who document it. The crisis of accountability: institutions have been captured, law weaponized, and those with power answer to no one.
Each chapter in each section will open with a visceral first-person scenario and closes with 10 specific steps everyone can take. The book culminates in 100 actions distilled into a detachable 10-point plan for immediate implementation.
The Fight Back is 40,000 words of actionable guidance for citizens everywhere who refuse to let democracy collapse. It is a book about agency-and what you can do now. More than anything, it's a book about courage: at a time of creative destruction, it's time to create the world we want.
We now face three convergent crises. The crisis of truth: tech platforms and AI have destroyed our information ecosystem, making shared reality impossible. The crisis of order: the United States-the nation that built the post-war international system-is now dismantling it, launching illegal military operations, killing its own citizens in the streets, arresting journalists who document it. The crisis of accountability: institutions have been captured, law weaponized, and those with power answer to no one.
Each chapter in each section will open with a visceral first-person scenario and closes with 10 specific steps everyone can take. The book culminates in 100 actions distilled into a detachable 10-point plan for immediate implementation.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
ISBN-13
978-0-7535-6293-2 (9780753562932)
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Maria Ressa is CEO, co-founder and President of Rappler, the Philippines's top digital news site. She is the current Nobel Laureate and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, the first Filipino in history to do so. She grew up in America and studied at Princeton University before working as a journalist in Asia for over 36 years. Maria has endured multiple arrests by the Duterte government, which is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A THOUSAND CUTS. Ressa won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 and was TIME Person of the Year in 2018, and was named by TIME as one of the most inspiring and influential women of the century. She has also featured in Prospect's Top 50 Thinkers, Bloomberg 50, and the BBC's Top 100 Women. She has received countless awards for her work, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of News Publishers. Before founding Rappler, Maria investigated terrorism in Southeast Asia, opening and running CNN's Manila Bureau and Jakarta Bureaus, before heading the largest news group in the Philippines. She wrote Seeds of Terror in 2003 and From Bin Laden to Facebook in 2012.
