Turning Fear into Power: How I Confronted the War on Terror (The Bridge Between the Cultures)

Sartor, Linda

ISBN 10: 1614571880 / ISBN 13: 9781614571889

Verlag: Cune Press, LLC, 2018

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In the wake of the 9-11 attacks in 2001, Linda Sartor was dismayed to see her country responding primarily with military action and coercive diplomacy. Rather than isolating and defeating the perpetrators, Linda saw US action punishing the innocents in foreign lands, lending credibility to Al Qaeda's depiction of the US as an imperial state and an enemy of Islam, making enemies, and undercutting decades of effort to win the hearts and minds of people around the world.Linda resolved to do more than complain. For the next decade she engaged in self-styled citizen diplomacy, traveling to six war-torn countries to see for herself, and to do what she could to assist locals in their efforts to attain peace and justice.Linda traveled to Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bahrain. She traveled with several different Peace and Justice organizations. And part of her story is the work of Americans and internationals to highlight injustice and to make some noise about the need for peace.Linda Sartor takes us behind the headlines, and she also isolates the idealism of activists from the US and other countries. She hopes that her stories will inspire readers to confront fear, to follow their hearts, and to place a bet that individual protest will, ultimately, undermine and reform the harsh imperial and economic systems that are too often accepted as a baseline "reality" when the nations of the world exercise power.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: "Linda Sartor has been a peace/justice activist and an educator and has been arrested a number of times protesting atrocities committed by the US in her name with her tax money such as the development and testing of nuclear weapons, and the use of drones for military purposes. After she saw how the US responded to 9/11, educating and protesting werent enough any more, and her tormented heart led her to travel to the war-torn places described in this book. During her more regular life, Linda lives in an intentional community, teaches research courses in a masters in leadership program, guides vision quest wilderness trips with a non-profit organization, and is the volunteer coordinator for the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County."

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Titel: Turning Fear into Power: How I Confronted ...
Verlag: Cune Press, LLC
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good