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Direct Action: An Historical Novel – print or free PDF
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Direct Action: An Historical Novel
Read the novel online, download it as a free PDF – or order an old-school print copy, with much sharper photos!
Watch a video on youtube – A History of Direct Action – by Luke Hauser.
On this site you’ll also find links to resources, music, and miscellaneous fun stuff that the folks from Direct Action have been involved with over the years.
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What is this book?
In the early 1980s, over 7000 people were arrested in a series of nonviolent direct action protests in California – a movement that helped shape today’s activism, from Seattle WTO to Occupy and beyond.
The novel – available as print, free PDF, or read online – recounts the actions, the lessons, the love lives, and the misadventures of a radical Bay Area community experimenting with political and artistic direct action, consensus, nonhierarchy, feminism, and a host of other social issues and practices.
The youtube video brings the story up to the present.
“Brought back the experiences so vividly that I could smell the unwashed bodies, feel the cold and the rough wool of the blankets, and taste once again that inimitable combination of spam and fruit cocktail that the guards called ‘The Empire Strikes Back!'” — Starhawk, from the Foreword
Book includes over 300 photos and images from the Direct Action newspaper archives, plus a 35-page direct action handbook.
