Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist - Brossura

Handler, Marisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1442966661 ISBN 13: 9781442966666

Casa editrice: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Riassunto

The most high-minded excuse for doing nothing is that the means with which to do it or the company you'd keep are flawed, the justification that you're keeping your hands clean (which is another way to say that you'll save only yourself). There are unambiguous realities in this book - the reality of poverty and of exploitation - but every situation still requires a tightrope-walker's balancing act: of pragmatism and idealism, of solidarity and independent-mindedness, of purposefulness and flexibility. And this is where the book becomes more than a conventional tale of an activist's evolution: spirituality, eventually in the clear form of Buddhism, enters in, and Buddhism itself offers the nonattachment, the recognition of ephemerality and the need to let go, the sense of life as an ever-moving river, that helps Marisa make sense out of all that she witnesses and does. At a very young age, she has gone very far. This book is an invitation to the rest of us to keep going.

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L'autore

Marisa Handler is a writer, activist, and singer-songwriter living in San Francisco. She has worked as an organizer in the global justice and peace movements and has traveled the world writing about socio-politics and globalization. Her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Tikkun magazine, Salon.com, the Earth Island Journal, Alternet.org, Bitch, the San Francisco Chronicle, and anthologies. Marisa plays regularly around the Bay Area, and her music, as well as more on the book.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: ReadHowYouWant
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1442966661
• ISBN 13: 9781442966666
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 456
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile