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Meetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s American social
change movements dominated the 1960s and 1970s, an era brought
about and influenced not by a handful of celebrity activists but by
people who cared. These history makers together transformed the
political and spiritual landscape of America and laid the
foundation for many of the social movements that exist today.
Through a series of 43 vignettes-tight biographical sketches of the
characters and intimate memories of her personal encounters with
them-the author creates a collective portrait of the rebels,
artists, radicals, and thinkers who through word and action raised
many of the issues of justice, the environment, feminism, and
colonialism that we are now familiar with. From Berkeley to
Bolivia, from New York to New Mexico, a complex, multi-layered
radical history unfolds through the stories and lives of the
characters. From Marty Schiffenhauer, who fought through the first
rent-control law in the United States, to Ponderosa Pine, who
started the All-Species Parade and never wore shoes, to Dan and
Patricia Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers and became
life-long anti-war and antinuclear activists, the portraits bring
out some of the vibrant, irreverent energy, the unswerving
commitment, and the passion for life of these generations of
activists. In our present moment, as many people find themselves in
the streets protesting for the first time in their lives, In the
Company of Rebels makes the connection to this relatively recent
rebellious era. As the author comments on her own twenty-year old
self, sitting at the counter of Cody's Books in Berkeley in the
early 1970s, thrilled about the times but oblivious of the work
that came before: "I didn't know anything about this courageous and
colorful past. But now I know."
When it came out in 1994, My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery
from Western Civilization quickly became a classic of the
ecopsychology movement. It is a book about roots which reach back
millennia to a time when humans lived in and honored the natural
world. By documenting the entanglement of the ecological crisis
with modern addictions, the book gives an unusual glimpse into
matters of culture, history, politics, and personal consciousness;
and by helping us make sense of the senseless abuses in the world
today, it inspires the remembrance of new/old pathways towards
healing. My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western
Civilization has been made available through New Catalyst Books.
New Catalyst Books is an imprint of New Society Publishers, aimed
at providing readers with access to a wider range of books dealing
with sustainability issues by bringing books back into print that
have enduring value in the field. For more information on New
Catalyst Books click here .
Meetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s American social
change movements dominated the 1960s and 1970s, an era brought
about and influenced not by a handful of celebrity activists but by
people who cared. These history makers together transformed the
political and spiritual landscape of America and laid the
foundation for many of the social movements that exist today.
Through a series of 43 vignettes-tight biographical sketches of the
characters and intimate memories of her personal encounters with
them-the author creates a collective portrait of the rebels,
artists, radicals, and thinkers who through word and action raised
many of the issues of justice, the environment, feminism, and
colonialism that we are now familiar with. From Berkeley to
Bolivia, from New York to New Mexico, a complex, multi-layered
radical history unfolds through the stories and lives of the
characters. From Marty Schiffenhauer, who fought through the first
rent-control law in the United States, to Ponderosa Pine, who
started the All-Species Parade and never wore shoes, to Dan and
Patricia Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers and became
life-long anti-war and antinuclear activists, the portraits bring
out some of the vibrant, irreverent energy, the unswerving
commitment, and the passion for life of these generations of
activists. In our present moment, as many people find themselves in
the streets protesting for the first time in their lives, In the
Company of Rebels makes the connection to this relatively recent
rebellious era. As the author comments on her own twenty-year old
self, sitting at the counter of Cody's Books in Berkeley in the
early 1970s, thrilled about the times but oblivious of the work
that came before: "I didn't know anything about this courageous and
colorful past. But now I know."
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