Ebook: The revolution where you live: stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America
Author: Glover Danny, Van Gelder Sarah
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Activists, Community development, Community development--United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Political Advocacy, Social action, Social action--United States, Social change, Social change--United States, Social justice, Social justice--United States, Social problems, Social problems--United States, Travel, Social action -- United States, Community development -- United States, Social justice -- United States, Social problems
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- City: United States
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
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...
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...
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