Praise for Wobblies & Zapatistas “There’s no doubt that we’ve lost much of our history. It’s also very clear that those in power in this country like it that way. Here’s a book that shows us why. It demonstrates not only that another world is possible, but that it already exists, has existed, and shows an endless potential to burst through the artificial walls and divisions that currently imprison us. An exquisite contribution to the literature of human freedom, and coming not a moment too soon.” — David Graeber, Author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and Direct Action: an Ethnography
“With the patient and intelligent prodding of Andrej Grubacic, Staughton Lynd, preeminent historian/scholar/revolutionary, takes us on a calm, leisurely walk through the annals of history and shows us what it means to be a human being. From the Zapatista movement in San Cristóbal, Chiapas to the steel mills of rural Ohio, he reminds us that when it’s all over, said and done, what truly matters the most is our willingness to reach out and love somebody.” — Bomani Shakur a.k.a. Keith Lamar, Death Row, Ohio State Penitentiary
“In these desperate, often tragic, times, we look backward, forward, even to our dreams to be able to keep imagining a world in which justice may be part of more people’s lives. We look to lives lived before ours, to stories and their meanings, to strategies culled from the worlds of politics or ancient wisdoms. We look in Africa,