Contents

Map of the 12,000-Mile Journey

Foreword by Danny Glover

PROLOGUE: A Big Revolution at a Small Scale

INTRODUCTION: We the People Love This Place

I. Setting Out, from the North/Northwest

1 Fire, Coal, and Climate in Montana

2 Another Way of Ranching

3 The Ranchers and Native People Resisting the Otter Creek Mine

4 A North Dakota Reservation Where Fracking Rules

5 No Fracking Way Turtle Mountain

Relationship to Earth/Place

II. The Midwest

6 The Making of the Rust Belt

7 Growing Power in Chicago

8 At New Era Windows, “We Work with Passion”

9 The Detroiters Who Are Redefining Prosperity

10 Dr. Garcia, Gunshot Wounds, and a Plea for Jobs in Cincinnati

11 The Union Movement’s Hail Mary Pass

12 Community Work for Community Good

Relationship to Our Economies

III. The East

13 Appalachia’s Coalfields Extraction

14 Greensboro’s Battle over Story

15 Restorative Justice and the Harrisonburg Police

16 Newark and the People Who Love It

17 Ithaca’s Stories of Race

IV. Home, via Texas and the Southwest

18 Dallas at Christmas and a Syrian Family

19 Childbirth and Transcendence

20 Moab—A Bridge

Relationship to Self

EPILOGUE: The Power of Connection

101 Ways to Reclaim Local Power

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author