Just Act. Listen Up. Coolgirls. Youth for Environmental Sanity. Third Eye Movement. Heads Up. Earth Rights International. Circle of Life Foundation. Global Youth Connect. Ruckus Society. United Students Against Sweatshops
There's a growing new global movement for justice today, and it's largely driven by a new generation of activists. Younger people from the US and around the first world, as well as those from developing countries, are all standing up for peace, the environment, and for social justice-and they're demanding to be heard.
Global Uprising documents this new youth movement through compelling first person narratives, interviews with both new and seasoned activists, poster art, poetry, and striking black and white photographs. Issues addressed include globalization and economic inequity, racism and women's rights, police brutality, media control, sweatshop labor and fair trade, the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of youth, old-growth forest destruction, and biotechnology. Older activists and world leaders tell their own stories, offering historical perspective and context. Youth-run organizations are highlighted throughout, as well as other key resources.
Visually and emotionally powerful, Global Uprising captures the spirit and passion of youth activism, honoring young people's power to effect serious change. It will have wide appeal both to younger people and to a range of others who care about the state of the world today-and tomorrow.
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Linda Wolf is co-author of Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun (New Society Publishers, 1997), and a distinguished photographer, and writer. Neva Welton is a therapist, facilitator and writer. Both are social activists.
Introduction: Ain't No Power Like the Power of the People
What is it that gets inside and moves us, until suddenly we are up on our feet, standing firm for something we believe in? What is it that gives us the juice to stay u
"Global Uprising" is just the type of book we need to help us understand our role as global citizens--not global consumers, as Bush and the free market corporate head and stock holders world would have us to be. What we get in this book are the voices of people--mainly young--who have allowed their consciousness and love for justice and peace to become workers against environmental racism, the Prison Industrial Complex, global sweatshops, the World Trade Organization, corporate media, factory farms, Shell Oil Co. in the Ogoni region of Nigeria, and many other injustices that rarely get heard or written about in the dominate media.
These are passionate, ofter personal stories, of people throughout the world who are in solidarity with the children of Iraq who are dying because of U.S. military actions and sanctions, the Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas, who live under constant attack by the government of Mexico, and with U'Wa people of Colombia whose land has been affected by the US oil giant Occidental Petroleum. These and many more groups and issues finally get heard in this book.
Each of these stories would make powerful documentaries or movies, for they're about what happens to a people who must suffer under capitalist/imperialist world order that seeks undermine undeverdevloped or weaker regions of the world for economic control and profit.
And despite the sometimes hopelessness of the struggle, these stories are inspiring for those of us who realize that we can't simply limit our lives to buying the latest stuff we really don't need, living rich while most of world lives in starvation, or allowing this racist/imperialist government to bomb countries, primarily inhabited by people of color--and killing tens or thousands of innocent people.
"Global Uprising" is not a joy to read, but it does serve as a testimony that we can take action against tyranny and oppression and demand a better, more equitable world for all citizens.
