Cramm This Book - So You Know WTF Is Going On in the World Today

Informationen zum Autor Olivia Seltzer Klappentext You can take a stand for justice. You can raise your voice to make a difference. You can find your way to make a mark and change the world.   But first—you need to know what the actual F is going on in it. Today’s world can feel like a seriously confusing mess. Headlines and newscasters and posts are coming at us from all sides, each talking about the latest issues and injustices, and everyone with their own opinion on how to solve the problems of the day. It’s enough to make anyone’s mind melt. Right?   Enter: Cramm This Book , your one-stop-shop for the scoop behind the scoop of the day. This is the read you need to understand everything from how the conflicts in the Middle East got going to where Black Lives Matter and Me Too actually began to what the full deal is with all of the wildfires and hurricanes we see each year. Important topics to read more about? We think so too.   From the founder of The Cramm, a news outlet by and for the incredible Gen Z activists who are already shaping our global future (really!), this book is a dive into the history that's made the world what it is today. Dip in for more on the wars, the movements, the disasters, and more—and get to know WTF is really going on.   Are you ready to take to the streets and take on the world? Then Cramm This Book and get going.   The future is ours. What are you waiting for?   Praise for Cramm This Book : * "Insightful, balanced, and nuanced [with a] final message [that] is a direct challenge to readers: now that you understand these problems, are you going to do something about them?" -- Booklist , *STARRED REVIEW* "Seltzer’s authorial tone is easygoing, self-aware, honest, and inviting while delivering crucial and sensitive information . . . This is an ideal work for readers seeking a starting point for world knowledge and societal activism." -- Kirkus Reviews   "A super helpful resource for social studies classes and catching up on social, economic, and political events." -- School Library Journal Leseprobe Cramm This Intro I was twelve years old when I decided I needed to change the world. Or maybe decided isn’t the right word. It wasn’t like I woke up one day and just went, “There are a lot of problems in the world. I should probably do something.” No, there was a greater shift taking place. It was the shift from feeling safe and secure within my country . . . to feeling both the absolute and urgent need to do something and the utter helplessness that comes with believing you’re too young and your voice is too small to do much of anything. That shift happened with the 2016 US presidential election. I’ll be honest: before that election, politics rarely crossed my mind. I watched the news each night with my parents, and I certainly had big opinions about a lot of what was going on, but I never saw myself as being directly impacted by anything I watched. And I know I wasn’t alone in that feeling. Like so many of my peers, I had been part of the American school system since kindergarten, and thus I had been raised on the idea that the United States of America was simply better . We brought democracy to the world, we fought for the freedom of our people and others, we were economically and politically superior, we were a melting pot of immigrants from all over the planet, and so on. This was the world that I saw and the world that I was taught about, andfrom my position of relative privilege, it all made perfect sense. I was raised Jewish, the great-granddaughter of family who were forced to flee the Soviet Union in the 1930s due to the pogroms—mass killing of Jews—and who eventually made their way as immigrants to Mexico, and then finally the US. So I knew that ant...

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• Autori: Olivia Seltzer
• Editore: Philomel Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 12 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.02.2023
• EAN: 9780593620984
• ISBN: 978-0-593-62098-4
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Saggi / saggi illustrati > Storia, politica