The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

VAN GELDER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626567654 ISBN 13: 9781626567658

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2017

Synopsis

Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across America

America faces huge challenges--climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah van Gelder suspected that there were solutions, and she went looking for them, not in the centers of power, where people are richly rewarded for their allegiance to the status quo, but off the beaten track, in rural communities, small towns, and neglected urban neighborhoods.

She bought a used pickup truck and camper and set off on a 12,000-mile journey through eighteen states, dozens of cities and towns, and five Indian reservations. From the ranches of Montana to the coalfields of Kentucky to the urban cores of Chicago and Detroit, van Gelder discovered people and communities who are remaking America from the ground up. Join her as she meets the quirky and the committed, the local heroes and the healers who, under the mass media's radar, are getting stuff done. The common thread running through their work was best summed up by a phrase she saw on a mural in Newark: "We the People LOVE This Place." That connection we each have to our physical and ecological place, and to our human community, is where we find our power and our best hopes for a new America.

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Review

"Sarah van Gelder's The Revolution Where You Live is filled with stories of people she interviewed as she traveled the country listening to their cries and dreams. Readers of these engrossing stories can go along for this memorable ride of reflection and empathy!"
-Ralph Nader, activist, author, and attorney

"I love that this book documents the incredibly powerful and dynamic movements that are taking root around the country. Read it!"
--Mark Ruffalo, actor, director, activist, and film producer

"Looking for hope? Here's where to find it. An inspiring account of the grassroots leaders throughout the United States who are confronting racism, the climate crisis, and poverty."
--Van Jones, CNN cohost, author, and activist

"Jump into Sarah van Gelder's camper, and you'll see our country anew . . . just the book Americans need right now."
--Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and cofounder of the Small Planet Institute

"What the world needs today is a modern Odysseus--one who speaks with the power and love of the feminine, listens from the heart, and acts from compassion. Sarah van Gelder is that hero, a woman who understands that the monsters blocking our paths are our own creations, that the way out of chaos is through soul-felt, community-centered involvement. The Revolution Where You Live is a song of modern redemption."
--John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

"What a journey! Sarah van Gelder uncovers the real revolution unfolding across America: leaderless and leader-full, up against it and angry, but still willing to hope. A passionate, powerful account!"
--Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and The End of Nature and cofounder of 350.org

"Journalist Sarah van Gelder says we can build the political revolution Bernie Sanders talks about from the bottom up, away from the iron grip of Wall Street and wealthy corporate interests. That's a future we can all believe in."
--RoseAnn DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United, and National Vice President, AFL-CIO

"Slow food is a local, healthy homemade meal, prepared with a lot of love. Sister Sarah has a similar talent as she shares with us her snail ride across Turtle Island--not as a fable but as independent media evidence that decolonization and the Great Turning are here. We the people love this place!"
--Pancho Ramos, full-time ServiceSpace volunteer, Oakland, undocumented and unafraid activist and mediator

"This book will keep you warm even as it keeps you riveted, and it will inspire you to see your part in the solutions that our world so desperately needs."
--Brendan Martin, founder and Director, The Working World

"Buckminster Fuller reminded us that we are facing a civilizational choice between utopia and oblivion. In this intrepid account, Sarah van Gelder renders the realistic utopia possible and reminds us that it is being born, right now, in the heart of the old empire."
--Alnoor Ladha, Executive Director, The Rules, and Board Member, Greenpeace International USA

"Like the inspiring efforts that she chronicles, Sarah van Gelder's writing is 'ordinary and extraordinary.' In sharp contrast to mass media blather and clichés of condescension, this book offers hope grounded in real human experience."
--Norman Solomon, Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy, and author of War Made Easy

"People are hungry for solutions, and those that unfold in these beautifully told stories offer ho --Linda Stout, founder of Spirit in Action and author of Bridging the Class Divide

About the Author

Sarah van Gelder is cofounder and editor-at-large of the award-winning YES! Magazine. She explores the leading edge of change, writing and speaking internationally on a wide range of topics.
Danny Glover is an American actor, film director, and political activist.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1626567654
• ISBN 13: 9781626567658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216