Uncover the Real Revolution Unfolding across America

America faces huge challenges—climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah vehicle Gelder suspected that there have been solutions, and she went looking on their behalf, not in the centers of power, where folks are richly rewarded for their allegiance towards the status quo, but from the beaten track, in rural communities, small cities, and neglected metropolitan neighborhoods.

She bought a used pickup and camper and about The Revolution Where You Live: Tales from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America tripped on a 12,000-mile trip through eighteen states, dozens of cities and towns, and five Indian reservations. Through the ranches of Montana towards the coalfields of Kentucky towards the metropolitan cores of Chicago and Detroit, van Gelder uncovered people and communities who are remaking America from the bottom up. Join her as she meets the quirky and the committed, the neighborhood heroes and the healers who, under the mass media’s radar, are receiving stuff done. The common thread running through their work was greatest summed up by a term she saw on the mural in Newark: “We the People LOVE This Place.” That connection we each need to our physical and ecological place, also to our human being community, is where we find our power and our best hopes for a fresh America.