Winds of Change - Sun, Rivera
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The clock is ticking . . . and the winds of change are blowing! With the planet in peril and people struggling to survive, it's all hands on deck for the Dandelion Insurrection. As natural - and human-made - disasters strike, the dandelions organize creative solutions all across the country: people-powered relief efforts, mutual aid groups, cooperative programs, community-wide potlucks, tool sharing, resilience plans, and more. Zadie Byrd Gray and Charlie Rider crisscross the United States, tracking down these hopeful and inspiring stories. Before long, a powerful shift starts growing in this…mehr

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The clock is ticking . . . and the winds of change are blowing! With the planet in peril and people struggling to survive, it's all hands on deck for the Dandelion Insurrection. As natural - and human-made - disasters strike, the dandelions organize creative solutions all across the country: people-powered relief efforts, mutual aid groups, cooperative programs, community-wide potlucks, tool sharing, resilience plans, and more. Zadie Byrd Gray and Charlie Rider crisscross the United States, tracking down these hopeful and inspiring stories. Before long, a powerful shift starts growing in this fertile soil of love and resistance. Fed up with the lack of compassion in the halls of power, the dandelions launch real democracy projects in neighborhoods and communities, workplaces, schools, businesses, social clubs, and beyond. But as ordinary people solve their problems without politicians, the rich and powerful fight back. The wealthy plot to thwart them. The corporations try to stall them. The politicians race to block them. When a megachurch preacher launches a doomsday mission to stop them, the Dandelion Insurrection faces a choice that threatens everything they stand for. Winds of Change is a story like no other, a tale of resistance and resilience, hopeful and eerie all at once. The living Earth rises up for justice. The debts of the past come due. Teens and elders alike rebel for life and the future. With courage and love, the Dandelion Insurrection must navigate fires and floods to rise from the ashes and bloom in the wreckage. But they must act swiftly, for the clock is ticking . . . and the winds of change are blowing! Hopeful. Visionary. Inspiring. This is the story you've been waiting for - a story that speaks straight to the heart of these wild times we're living through. Each novel in the Dandelion Trilogy is a stand-alone story. They can be enjoyed in any order, but you'll want to read them all! Pick up your trilogy today! Also, don't miss the accompanying study guide to making change and Rise & Resist, the collection of fiery essays that Charlie Rider writes to rally the people for change. Welcome to the Dandelion Insurrection! Praise For Winds of Change "The Dandelion Trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion with non-stop action and a cavalcade of exciting ideas for transforming society." - Burt Kempner, author and filmmaker "Winds of Change really pulls the series together as an instructive allegory of what continued activism for nonviolent change can look like. It makes it look not-so-hard to live a life dedicated to meaningful community action and change!" - Seán P. Duffy, Executive Director, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University "Eloquent, visionary and accessible, this book energizes and expands upon the epic stories told throughout the Dandelion Trilogy. It encourages us to realize that revolution is not the end of conflict, but the beginning of a messy, communal voyage towards justice." - Susie Beiersdorfer, National Community Rights Network "This novel lets us imagine what is possible in our work for peace with justice." - Patrick Hiller, War Prevention Initiative
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Rivera Sun is an award-winning author and an internationally-respected teacher of strategy for nonviolent movements. She is the founding editor of the weekly Nonviolence News, the largest international journal devoted to the use of nonviolence in mass movements. She is the author of nine novels, as well as nine theatrical plays, three books of poetry, a book of highly opinionated essays and a study guide to nonviolent action.Her essays on social justice are syndicated by Peace Voice and have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines.Rivera co-hosted nationally syndicated weekly radio shows for over five years and has co-founded two nationwide nonviolent study and action groups.She has been the program director for Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence and is an advisor to many national and international social and environmental activist organizations. Rivera's webinars, readings and workshops are available on her website. She is happy to meet with classroom and activist groups and book clubs.Rivera has red hair, a twin sister, and a fondness for esoteric mystics. She went to Bennington College to study writing as a Harcourt Scholar and graduated with a degree in dance. She lives in an earthship house in New Mexico, where she grows tomatoes, bakes sourdough bread, and drinks pu'erh tea. Rivera has been an aerial dancer, a bike messenger, and a gung-fu style tea server. Everything else about her -except her writing- is perfectly ordinary.Rivera Sun sings the anthem of our times. Her work celebrates the everyday heroes hidden in activists and soccer moms, alike. Rich metaphor and exquisite writing thrust her novels and poetry into the realms of literary greatness, while the stories grab the social issues of our times by the collar and shakes them hard. A soaring tribute to the beauty of the human spirit and also a scathing indictment of contemporary culture, her work is unforgettable; it seizes you at the first page and sends you flying out the other side, refreshed, rejuvenated and empowered to change. Rivera believes in being an embodiment of love-in-action in all that she does. A passionate participant in creating a just, sustainable, and peaceful world, she takes the responsibility of life seriously . . . and with a good dose of humor. Her novels focus on the social issues of our times, positing creative solutions as well as muckraking through the causes of suffering. "Life is the ultimate adventure!" Rivera says.Rivera is easy to connect with on Facebook and Twitter, or through the RiveraSun.com website. She encourages her readers to reach out, write reviews, and share their favorite quotes with others. Rivera in her words: I collect tangible heroesimperfect and lovablefrom all times and all nations, races and creedswith their adventure-plot-metaphorsthat we, ourselves, liveto inspire all peopleto lead boldly authentic, everyday livesdeeply connected to themselveseach otherand this earth.I pair complexity to simplicityfold panoramas into packageschallenge one voice to speak many.I leave room for music,dance,and physicality.embodying the tellerin mind, heart, and soul.The kitchen becomes a stagethe classroom a theaterevery human a storyteller.The tales become commondiscussed over tea,simmered with dinnerwritten in lettersrippling. . .into our lives.