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Title: The Revolution Where You Live
Subtitle: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America
Author: Sarah van Gelder
Narrator: Natalie Hoyt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-27-16
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues
Publisher's Summary:
Like many of us, YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder was alarmed about the state of American society. The deep divides, racial violence, climate change, economic insecurity, and inequality - is our society coming unraveled? Has anyone got answers? She confided her fears to a friend, who said, "If the universe could deploy the one small person that is you, what would it have you do?" Her answer surprised them both: "I'd go out traveling and see for myself."
Driving a 12-year-old Toyota pickup with a tiny camper, she visited 18 states and five Indian reservations, big cities, and small towns. Instead of staying in the centers of power, where people are richly rewarded for their allegiance to the status quo, she headed out on the back roads of Montana and North Dakota; to the abandoned neighborhoods of Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Newark; to Appalachia and Greensboro, North Carolina; and home via Texas, New Mexico, and Utah.
Van Gelder invites you to come with her as she meets the quirky and the committed, the local heroes and the healers who, under the mass media's radar, are getting stuff done. The common thread running through their work was best summed up by a phrase she saw on a mural in Newark: "We the People LOVE This Place." That connection we each have to our physical and ecological place, and to our human community, is where we find our power and our best hopes for a new America.
Members Reviews:
Timely and Inspiring
While the broad range of places and issues made it a bit difficult to completely connect to the story, the main message is as necessary as ever and provides valuable insight.
This short, easy to read, easy to love book
This is such a simple book - simple to read, simple to understand, and simple to love. And yet it goes so deep, right into the hearts that struggle and the hearts that yearn for a better way of living, beyond the chaos and fear that America has become. Sarah van Gelder is a founder of YES! Magazine, based up in the Pacific Northwest, and for years she and her team have been sharing positive, visionary and yet practical stories about how we can change the world.
In this short, easy to read and easy to love book she tells of the 12,000 mile journey she took alone in her little camper van, travelling around America from Montana to Detroit, from the Appalachians to Newark, from North Carolina to New Mexico, meeting black people, white people, Latino people, indigenous people, all Americans, people working to bring healing, love and resilience to their communities and their economies.
I have read many books about building a new world and a new economy, but what Sarah achieves is to make it all so eminently personal, through the people she meets, who share their loves, their struggles,and their work to make a better world. I would like every high school graduate in every school in America to be given a copy a month before they leave school, saying "Look, here are other people, trying to make sense of this world, to love it and heal it: have faith, have hope, get to know your community, work hard, and together, we will change the world." I can feel the change that some will experience in their hearts, and know what a difference it will make.
