
Angelina Jolie, actor-director-humanitarian, and Indigenous activist Tokata Iron Eyes join Traci to discuss Jolie’s book Know Your Rights an Claim Them: A Guide for Youth, which she wrote with Geraldine Van Bueren and Amnesty International. The conversation is a candid discussion with two people who are helping to shape the dialogue around activism, especially when it comes to the global rights of children, and the ways activism permeates all facets of life.
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib, we will discuss the book on December 29th with Andrew Ti.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

- Know your Rights and Claim Them by Angelina Jolie, Geraldine Van Bueren, and Amnesty International
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Global Indigenous Youth Caucus
- “The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock” (Saul Elbein, The New York Times)
- William Shakespeare
- Lewis and Clark
- Know Your Rights by The Clash
- “Workers at Kellogg cereal factories go on strike” (The New York)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
- Barack Obama answers The Stacks’ snack question (The Stacks, 2020)

- Zaniyan Iron Eyes
- Zaniyan Iron Eyes TikTok on Kills in Water
- Humanrace Sičhona Ad Campaign
- Vanessa Nakate
- John Trudell
- Zami by Audre Lorde
- Black Elk Speaks by John Gneisenau Neihard
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