Dancing with history a life for peace and justice
A working class lad finds a place to stand -- Lessons in leadership -- College offers breathing room and fresh challenges -- Finding Quakers and a loving partner -- I'm more activist than my college can handle -- The only white student in the dorms of a Black college -- Starting a family in a s...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York ; Oakland ; London
Seven Stories Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A working class lad finds a place to stand -- Lessons in leadership -- College offers breathing room and fresh challenges -- Finding Quakers and a loving partner -- I'm more activist than my college can handle -- The only white student in the dorms of a Black college -- Starting a family in a social democracy -- North Philly and the Ivy League -- Jailed in the civil rights movement -- Violence greets opposition to the Vietnam War -- My baby helps to save the trees -- Community deepens the Vietnam movement -- Threats and cheer on the home front -- Piercing a naval blockade with medicine for Vietnam -- Gunboats surround me in the South China Sea -- Sharing strategy lessons in Britain -- The tree of life, a book, and a new baby -- Building the Movement for a New Society -- A container for liberation -- 1976 brings joy in the struggle -- Getting the goods on cancer -- Christina's miracle -- Campaigning for Jobs with Peace -- Family stresses lead to major change -- Confronting a homophobic Supreme Court -- Training coal miners for a win -- Responding to tragedy in Sri Lanka and at home -- Putting training on the front burner -- Wins for climate justice and democracy "From his first arrest in the Civil Rights era to his most recent during a climate justice march at the age of 83, George Lakey has committed his life to a mission of building a better world through movements for justice. Lakey draws readers into the center of history-making events, telling often serious stories with playfulness and intimacy. In this memoir, he describes the personal, political, and theoretical-coming out as bisexual to his Quaker community while known as a church leader and family man, protesting against the war in Vietnam by delivering medical supplies through the naval blockade in the South China Sea, and applying his academic study of nonviolent resistance to creative tactics in direct action campaigns. From strategies he learned as a young man facing violence in the streets to risking his life as an unarmed bodyguard for Sri Lankan human rights lawyers, Lakey recounts his experience living out the tension between commitment to family and mission. Drawing strength from his community to fight cancer, survive painful parenting struggles, and create networks to help prevent activist burnout, this book shows readers how to find hope in even the darkest times through strategic, joyful activism"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 386 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781644212356 978-1-64421-235-6 |