Warning: This is shameless self-promotion. Well, actually I'm not promoting myself but I book I co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair and contributed essays to that was just released by AK Press called Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. Check out our site at RedStateRebels.org.
Here's some advance praise:
"The stakes are high, in the so-called ‘Red States,’ as corporate America, the defense establishment, and an array of minions battle against the biodiversity of the heartland. In this book, Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair skillfully present a diverse set of rebels who defy reckless policies and greedy profiteers. It’s easy to feel enthusiastic gratitude for this collection of stories. Matching the principled stance of the narrators, however, presents a sharp challenge."
–Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
"Those of us who are tired of being laid claim to by right-wing politicians and tut-tutted over by coastal liberals can now brandish a copy of Red State Rebels and declare, ‘This is the real story out here!’"
–Stan Cox, author of Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine
You can read the introduction here.
And another excerpt here.
Here are a few of the contributors you may be familiar with:
Joe Bageant is the author of the best-selling Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War. He was raised in Winchester, Virginia.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American professor of ethnic studies. In addition to many scholarly books and articles, she has published three memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie; Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975; and Blood on the Border. Dunbar-Ortiz was raised in rural Oklahoma.
Kirkpatrick Sale is the author of twelve books, including Human Scale, The Conquest of Paradise, Rebels Against the Future, and The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream.
Bob Moser is a Nation contributing writer. His book about Democrats and the South will be published in summer 2008.
Check it out!