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The revolution where you live : stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America / / Sarah van Gelder ; Foreword by Danny Glover



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Autore: Van Gelder Sarah Visualizza persona
Titolo: The revolution where you live : stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America / / Sarah van Gelder ; Foreword by Danny Glover Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: San Francisco : , : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, , [2017]
�2017
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina: 361.3
Soggetto topico: Social action - United States
Community development - United States
Social justice - United States
Social problems - United States
Social change - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Description and travel
Persona (resp. second.): GloverDanny
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Setting out, form the North/Northwest -- 2. The Midwest -- 3. The East -- 4. Home, via Texas and the Southwest.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The revolution where you live  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62656-767-0
1-62656-766-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798994903321
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Serie: BK currents book.