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Contest: For Valentine's, Find Your Passion - Win Inspiring Books About What People Love Most From ECW

ECW Radical Love contest

Today is Valentine's Day, the day of red hearts, chocolates, and roses. But if we're celebrating love, we want to celebrate all kinds of love, including the passion we can feel for a cause, a hobby, or a lifelong pursuit. 

Courtesy of of ECW Press, we've got an incredible prize pack of books for one lucky winner, in which we see writers explore what being truly passionate about something means to them. 

The ECW Radical Passion contest includes one copy of each of:

To enter, send us an email at contests@open-book.ca with your full mailing address and the subject line "ECW Radical Passion contest"

For one (1) bonus entry, let us know something you're passionate about, whether it's a hobby, a cause, an activity, or otherwise!

To be considered, entries must be received by 11:59pm on Sunday, February 20, 2022. Contest open to Canadian residents only; one entry per person (apart from bonus entries described above). One winner will be chosen at random and contacted via email. 

Good luck and happy Valentine's Day to everyone who enters!

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Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism

“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC

“It’s time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.” — CNN

In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water justice. From each of these she draws her lessons of hope, emphasizing that effective activism is not really about the goal, rather it is about building a movement and finding like-minded people to carry the load with you. Barlow knows firsthand how hard fighting for change can be. But she also knows that change does happen and that hope is the essential ingredient.