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The Revolution Where You Live

Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America

by Sarah van Gelder ...

Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across AmericaAmerica faces huge challenges'Äîclimate 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 ... Read more

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Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across AmericaAmerica faces huge challenges'Äîclimate 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
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Reparations and Reparatory Justice

Past, Present, and Future

by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, V. P. Franklin, A.J Davis, Ron Daniels, Danny Glover, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Sheila Jackson Lee0, Kamm Howard1, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America2, New Afrikan Peoples Organization/Malcolm X Grassroots Movement3, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement4, National African American Reparations Commission5, Adom Gretachew6, James B Stewart7, Chuck Collins8, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad9, Brian Jones0, Charles P. Henry1, Jesse Jackson Sr Sr2, Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles3 ...

Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the world.Sharing a focus on reparations as an issue of justice, the contributors provide a historical primer of ... Read more

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Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the world.Sharing a focus on reparations as an issue of justice, the contributors provide a historical primer of
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Hot Feet and Social Change

African Dance and Diaspora Communities

by Esailama Diouf, Yvonne Daniel, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, James Counts Early, Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius0, Charles Davis1, Indira Etwaroo2, Habib Iddrisu3, Julie B. Johnson4, C. Kemal Nance5, Halifu Osumare6, Amaniyea Payne7, William Serrano-Franklin8, Kariamu Welsh9 ...

The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays challenges ... Read more

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The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays challenges
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I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart

A Poetic Love Song

by Dedan Gills, Belvie Rooks ...

Narrated by Belvie Rooks, Danny Glover ...

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2 hours 9 min

The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and new as now.” Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love. Dedan (1945–2015) was a lifelong social justice and human rights activist who viewed himself as a “soulutionary.” His ... Read more

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The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and new as now.” Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love. Dedan (1945–2015) was a lifelong social justice and human rights activist who viewed himself as a “soulutionary.” His
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Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship

by Nikki Giovanni ...

Narrated by Danny Glover ...

Unabridged

10 min

A historic friendship at a unique moment in time."Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: ... Read more

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A historic friendship at a unique moment in time."Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure:
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The Revolution Where You Live

Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America

by Sarah van Gelder ...

Narrated by Natalie Hoyt ...

Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder sends dispatches from an eighteen-state journey across America, describing how people abandoned by big national institutions are developing creative community-based solutions to environmental and social problems.YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder was worried about the current state of American society. Environmental destruction, growing poverty, urban ... Read more

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YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder sends dispatches from an eighteen-state journey across America, describing how people abandoned by big national institutions are developing creative community-based solutions to environmental and social problems.YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder was worried about the current state of American society. Environmental destruction, growing poverty, urban
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Life After Cars

Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back**When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty.Instead of unbounded freedom, the never-ending ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back**When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty.Instead of unbounded freedom, the never-ending
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Deep Economy

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

by Bill McKibben ...

The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives."A hopeful manifesto. . . . An inspiring book that shows us not only the way we need to live, but also the way we should want to."— The Boston GlobeIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge... ... Read more

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The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives."A hopeful manifesto. . . . An inspiring book that shows us not only the way we need to live, but also the way we should want to."— The Boston GlobeIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge...
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Affluenza

How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back

by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor ...

A "witty yet hard-hitting" look at the symptoms, causes, and cures for America's addiction to buying more stuff ( Library Journal).NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous ... Read more

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A "witty yet hard-hitting" look at the symptoms, causes, and cures for America's addiction to buying more stuff ( Library Journal).NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous
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Our Towns

A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

by James Fallows, Deborah Fallows ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO MaxFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO MaxFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns,
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What Can I Do?

The Path from Climate Despair to Action

by Jane Fonda ...

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation."In the fall of 2019, frustrated with ... Read more

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A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation."In the fall of 2019, frustrated with
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On the Move

The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

by Abrahm Lustgarten ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**A Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award“On the Move explains how we got here and where we’re headed. It’s crucial guide to the world we are creating.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction**A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on ... ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**A Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award“On the Move explains how we got here and where we’re headed. It’s crucial guide to the world we are creating.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction**A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on ...
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