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to-read (11)
poetry (15)
radical-history (10)
community-organizing (9)
graphic-novel (2)
urban-studies (2)
what-the-fuck---- (2)
public-policy (2)
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James Tracyauthor profile |
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| born | November 03, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Oakland, CA, United States | |||||||||||||||
| website | http://jamesrtracy.wordpress.com | |||||||||||||||
| genre | Poetry, Nonfiction | |||||||||||||||
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about this author
James Tracy is a long-time organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is active with the Community Housing Organizing Project and the SF Community Land Trust. His articles on social movements and urban studies have appeared in Race, Poverty and the Environment, Shelterforce, Dollars and Sense, Z, Processed World, and at www.jamesrtracy.wordpress.com. Tracy has edited two activist handbooks, the Civil Disobedience Handbook and the Military Draft Handbook, both on Manic D Press. Upcoming titles "Getting Ready For the Firing Line: Working Class Whites in the New Left 1964-1976. (Melville House Publishers),"Dispatches Against Displacement: From the Global Economy to the Eviction Notice" (AK Press) ed., "Avanti-Popolo: S...more |
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"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. "
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
"True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life"
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
"“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”"
— Tich Nhat Hahn
— Tich Nhat Hahn
"We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go."
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
"I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
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