Protest Nation

Protest Nation is a dazzling collection of the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the modern-day backbone of the powerful American tradition of activism and struggle. Here are the wordsfrom socialists, feminists, union organizers, civil-rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentaliststhat have been beacons for millions, reaching from the present and going back through decades of radical thinking and movement-building. Brief introductory essays by the editors provide a rich biographical and historical context for the selections, which include a fiery speech by the great socialist orator Eugene Debs, the original black Panther Party Platform, Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech, and Peter Singer's astonishing treatise on animal liberation. Protest Nation captures twentieth-century American radical thought and action and will both thrill and inspire twenty-first-century readers. Book jacket.

Jeannette Bessinger is a Board Certified Holistic Health Counselor, owner of Balance for Life, LLC (www.balancefor lifellc.com), and a mother of two teens. An award-winning lifestyle and nutrition educator, Bessinger developed a nutrition-and cooking-based obesity prevention program for Head Start with a grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and helped design a citywide obesity prevention/intervention plan for families with a grant from the Rhode Island Department of Health. She is a nutrition and healthy-lifestyle consultant for various hospitals and public schools, and a recipe designer for Organically Good and thehealthypantry.com.
Tracee Yablon-Brenner is a Registered Dietitian, Board Certified Holistic Health Counselor, founder of Nutrition is Healing (www.nutritionis healing.com), and a mother of two girls. She completed her internship in dietetics at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. A member of the American Dietetic Association and Pediatric and Diabetic Practice Groups, she is A.D.A-trained in childhood and adolescent weight management.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is Lecturer and Director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a co-editor of The Radical Reader and Prophets of Protest (both published by The New Press). John McMillian is the author of Tom Paine's Children and a co-editor of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.