The revolution where you live : stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America / Sarah van Gelder
- Author
- Van Gelder, Sarah
- Published
- San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- Contents
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Map of the 12,000-Mile Journey; Foreword; PROLOGUE: A Big Revolution at a Small Scale; INTRODUCTION: We the People Love This Place; I: Setting Out, from the North/Northwest; 1. Fire, Coal, and Climate in Montana; 2. Another Way of Ranching; 3. The Ranchers and Native People Resisting the Otter Creek Mine; 4.A North Dakota Reservation Where Fracking Rules; 5. No Fracking Way Turtle Mountain; Relationship to Earth/Place; II: The Midwest; 6. The Making of the Rust Belt; 7. Growing Power in Chicago; 8. At New Era Windows, "We Work with Passion., 9. The Detroiters Who Are Redefining Prosperity10. Dr. Garcia, Gunshot Wounds, and a Plea for Jobs in Cincinnati; 11. The Union Movement's Hail Mary Pass; 12.Community Work for Community Good; Relationship to Our Economies; III: The East; 13. Appalachia's Coalfields Extraction; 14. Greensboro's Battle over Story; 15. Restorative Justice and the Harrisonburg Police; 16. Newark and the People Who Love It; 17. Ithaca's Stories of Race; IV: Home, via Texas and the Southwest; 18. Dallas at Christmas and a Syrian Family; 19. Childbirth and Transcendence; 20. Moab-A Bridge; Relationship to Self., and EPILOGUE: The Power of Connection101 Ways to Reclaim Local Power; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.
- Summary
- YES! Magazine cofounder van Gelder shows how people abandoned by national institutions are developing community-based solutions to environmental and social problems.
- Subject(s)
- Social action—United States
- Community development—United States
- Social justice—United States
- Social problems—United States
- Social change—United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Social Services & Welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Human Services
- Community development
- Social action
- Social change
- Social justice
- Social problems
- Travel
- United States—Description and travel
- United States
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 1626567662 (electronic bk.)
9781626567665 (electronic bk.)
9781626567672 (electronic bk.)
1626567670 (electronic bk.)
1626567654
9781626567658 - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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