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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Social action -- United States.
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Community development -- United States.
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Social justice -- United States.
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Social problems -- United States.
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Social change -- United States.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Community development. (OCoLC)fst00870818
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Social action. (OCoLC)fst01122251
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
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Social problems. (OCoLC)fst01122778
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Gelder, Sarah. Revolution Where You Live : Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America. Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2017 9781626567658 |
| ISBN |
1626567662 (electronic book) |
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9781626567665 (electronic book) |
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9781626567672 (electronic book) |
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1626567670 (electronic book) |
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1626567654 |
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9781626567658 |
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