Book Review: The Irrisistable Revolution
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane ClaiborneMy review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is by far the best book I have ever read... ever.
Don't be fooled by people's bad reviews of the book- Many are called but few will follow. Dive in and dare to dream!!!
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posted by Chelsea at 9:42 AM
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Wanted to say thanks for your post this morning (Thursday, Jan 15, 2009) to Tom Ashbrook's OnPoint. Your comment was "onpoint" indeed. (Self-help rather than "I'm OK with Uncle taking all our money so long as they do something with it besides stuff it into their pals' pockets.")
When I was your age (back in the day--and I even got to visit Vietnam for half a month back in 1965-6, and I even got paid for it, an extra $50 for "hostile fire pay" (i.e., combat pay), they called it)....
.... What was I writing? Ahh, when I was your age (and could stay on the same topic for more than a sentence), I thought food coöps were cool. Now the "real deal" is "subscription farming" or "permaculture." (completely sustainable agriculture, combined with subscription farming).
And take a look at Alcohol Can Be A Gas, a phone-book-sized manual on fermenting anything and distilling ethanol to run your car, your moped, your Vespa scooter (or Honda, if you're fonda Japanese woks of art).
Good job on the bicycle (but spell them "brakes" and not "breaks"). There used to be a good bike shop on the north side of West 96th St. just up the hill a couple of storefronts from Broadway. Used to live there after I spent a year at Columbia Grad school of journalism. It is a nice campus--and check out the law school library. Turns out my sister married into a "Columbia Legacy family" -- the grandfather, the son, and two of their three children got their undergrad degrees there. The daughter (my niece) will graduate in June.
You may indeed be closer than you think.
Oh yeah, an on the matter of helping ourselves and not relying on the very weak reed of government, here's my solution.
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