Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

Frances Moore Lappe,Adam Eichen

Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Beacon Press
Country
United States
Published
26 September 2017
Pages
216
ISBN
9780807023815

Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

Frances Moore Lappe,Adam Eichen

An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy. With our democracy in crisis, many Americans are frightened and uncertain. So, the legendary activist and author of Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe, and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen teamed up to tell the underreported story of a movement of movements arising to tackle the roots of the crisis. The authors view the Trump presidency as a symptom of a shocking anti-democracy movement and expose the events that drove us to this crisis. But their focus is on solutions: how people from all backgrounds, committed to an array of social-justice causes, are creating a canopy of hope, what Lappe and Eichen call the democracy movement. To save the democracy we thought we had, argue the authors, we must take our civic life to a place it’s never been. The arising democracy movement’s innovative and inspiring strategies are enabling millions of Americans to feel part of something big, historic, and positive. Democracy is not only possible but essential to meet the most basic human needs for power, meaning, and connection; joining the democracy movement is thus a daring and noble undertaking calling each of us.

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