fuck yeah Rebecca Solnit

I have this on hold at my local library and on order from my local bookstore. I can’t wait to see what’s inside. xo 

From: The Ezra Klein Show 

Read more from her interview in NewStatesmenAmerica.

(Grandparents' shoe store, Boyle Heights, L.A. Still a family shoe store--I think it's Aguirre Shoes, but they kept the terrazzo.)

FYRS

‘‘Change is often unpredictable and indirect. We don’t know the future. We’ve changed the world many times, and remembering that, that history, is really a source of power to continue and it doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.’’

Call climate change what it is: VIOLENCE. 

FUCK YEAH REBECCA SOLNIT 

And that’s another thing that matters. Consequences are often indirect. The movement at Standing Rock may yet stop a pipeline. Whether it does or not, it has brought together perhaps the greatest single gathering of native North Americans (from Canada as well as the United States) ever, and that has been a profound and moving watershed for the affirmation of cultural identities and political rights. It has demonstrated yet again that the environmental movement and human rights campaigns are often inseparable, reminded us that worldwide, indigenous people are in the forefront of the climate movement. Many things we cannot foresee may come of this gathering and its vision, tactics and power.

Thank you Rebecca Solnit 

Big fans all over this globe. 

9) What we call success is very nice and comes with useful byproducts, but success is not love, or at least it is at best the result of love of the work and not of you, so don’t confuse the two. Cultivating love for others and maybe receiving some for yourself is another job and an important one. The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your reach.

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