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The revolution where you live, stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America, Sarah van Gelder

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The revolution where you live

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Sarah van Gelder

stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America

YES! Magazine cofounder van Gelder shows how people abandoned by national institutions are developing community-based solutions to environmental and social problems

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 Passion9. 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 SelfEPILOGUE: 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