By Starhawk
ISBN-10: 1897408137
ISBN-13: 9781897408131
Writing from front traces, Starhawk chronicles the worldwide justice flow sparked by way of Seattle’s 1999 anti-World alternate association protest. A life-long activist, Starhawk is deeply concerned as an instantaneous motion player and coach within the antiglobalization movement.
The publication is split into "Actions" and "Visions." partly I, Starhawk starts with an outline of the advanced political and monetary powers that the antiglobalization flow opposes. Then, recounting the blow-by-blow occasions of the serious confrontations confronted through the antiglobalization protestors—from Seattle to Genoa—Starhawk discusses police brutality, the Black Bloc as opposed to the pacifists, and the magic of solidarity.
In half II, Starhawk spins a imaginative and prescient of the way forward for the antiglobalization flow. Drawing on her 20 years of expertise as an activist, ecofeminist, and witch, she explores the talk among violent and nonviolent strategies; the definition of an economic system of real abundance; and the way we will rework our rage and melancholy, face our fears, and renew our spirits whereas performing to alter the world.
Starhawk is the writer or coauthor of 8 books, together with The Twelve Wild Swans: trips Into Magic, therapeutic and Action (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000); the 20th Anniversary version of The Spiral Dance (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999); and Circle around: elevating kids within the Goddess Tradition (Bantam, 1998). recognized within the Wiccan and Pagan neighborhood, Starhawk is a columnist on the net for beliefnet.com and for znet. She lives in San Francisco.
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