Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country - Softcover

Goldstein, Michael

9780989166102: Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989166104 ISBN 13: 9780989166102

Publisher: The Printed Voice, 2013

It is the night of the Winter Solstice in 2120. At one of thousands of community gatherings across the United States, a storyteller begins the annual retelling of how, back in 2023, the people took over their own government, making it a means for mobilizing their collective power to promote peace, social justice, environmental responsibility, and a society hospitable to the needs of the human spirit.

She recounts what life was like before: how public policy was dominated by corporate interests that infected almost every area of life. A united movement, led by a new kind of grass-roots political party, was necessary for real change She tells how, over a period of years, that movement developed and succeeded in creating a nonviolent revolution.

Part vision of the road forward for today's concerned citizens, part organizing tool, Return of the Light is a source of hope and inspiration.

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About the Author:

Michael Goldstein lives in Northern California, where he works as a mediator, as well as an appellate lawyer handling death-penalty and other court-appointed cases. He graduated with high honors from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an M.A. in counseling psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He blogs in the Huffington Post and on his own site, www.michaelgoldstein.us, focusing on the need to move beyond the teeter-totter of the two-party system and the means to do so.

Review:

“In these dark days for humanity and the earth as American capitalism seems unstoppable in its class war on the poor and the American middle class and its reckless destruction of the life-support system of the planet in pursuit of profit for the 1%, Michael Goldstein's Return of the Light offers a story of hope and a vision of an alternative future. It will nourish the souls of the discouraged and challenge the cynicism of those activists and social change agents who feel defeated.”

--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor of Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
and Chair, The (interfaith and secular humanist welcoming)
Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org

"Return of the Light is a utopian Looking Backward analysis of society and how a prosperous, equitable politico-economy can be created. Clearly written, hopeful and useful for those interested in building a real democracy."

--Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism and Contrary Notions

"An incredibly comprehensive overview of the sheer madness of the way humans currently cohabit our fragile and volatile planet, coupled with optimism and dramatic, almost unthinkable changes for the better that may still shape our collective future."

--Eliezer Sobel, author of The 99th Monkey:
A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures
with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics
and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments

“Catalogues the failures of consumer capitalism and the future solutions, at the same time and place-- a very encouraging read, in a time of little optimism.”

--Don Hazen, Executive Editor, Alternet

“This is a poetic and progressive incantation of recent history. Recommended to all who want a new beginning.”
    --Scoop Nisker, author, performer, teacher of Buddhism.

“Illuminate this book! It’s so heavy, it’s light.”

--Wavy Gravy
author, Something Good for a Change

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