Book Reviews
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: A Guide to Including Children, Elders, Everyone in Activism
In many ways, the two kids I helped raise had great childhoods. There were four adults who loved them - a mom and stepmom, a dad and stepdad - and they were surrounded by role models who were engaged in efforts to improve their communities and world. They learned early that different people have different strengths and grew to appreciate variation in both style and substance. That said,...
Sending Signals about Political Graphics
If you are interested in the use of graphic art and communication in political struggles, don’t miss the latest issue of Signal, which has just come out. The first issue appeared in 2010, and for the last few months Amazon has been sending status updates saying that the new issue would be later than expected. The publishers must have unjammed the logs, though, and in the end it...
West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California
If you favor the Occupy Wall Street moment, you might also savor the personal and political flavors of communal living during the 1960s and 1970s. In West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, 13 contributors enlighten us about these alternate living and working arrangements. Of the editorial quartet who oversaw this book, seven years in the making, two are from the city...
Grappling with Graeber - Alternatives to Kamikaze Capitalism
Anthropologist and activist, David Graeber wrote 6 essays between 2004 and 2010 and they are now compiled under the title “Revolutions in Reverse”. We here in the United States have been told there is no alternative to markets and capitalism, but in these essays he comes up with some observations about how to go about re-imagining lives that have meaning and purpose. His idea...
The Enemy Is Inertia
The U.S. antiwar “movement” is dead, if it ever existed at all over the past 35 years. The U.S. government and its global partners are still invading and occupying nations and violently suppressing opposition movements. And the vast majority of people in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world are doing nothing useful to stop the nation-states in which they...
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