Achieving the impossible
Subtitle: stories of courage, caring, & community
By: Lois Marie Gibbs
Publisher: Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Falls Church, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781607256670
Subjects: Community power; Case studies; Community leadership; Social action; Social change; Political participation; Hazardous waste sites; Social aspects
Description: Presents stories about ordinary people creating extraordinary change in their communities. Celebrates people's willingness to engage in our democratic system of government and demonstrates people's courage, hope and acts of kindness.
Table of contents: title: The march of the mutants: the Love Canal resettlement fight / Anne Rabe; title: Learning Chinese: actress finds role of a lifetime / Jane Kaczmarek; title: Talking to the toilet / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Celebrity road trip in Cancer Alley / Mike Farrell; title: Canary in a coal mine / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Say what? "Son, the army is not in the business of killing people" / Craig Williams; title: Chinatown task force / Peter Sessa; title: Cathy the integrator / Sharon Franklin; title: Where there is smoke, there is fire / Flecher Harper and Stacey Kennealy; title: Citgo vs. the fly / Suzie Canales; title: Groundhogs, towering toasters, and supersized SUVs: the prop-er way to send a message / Ralph Nader; title: Potluck wisdom / Dick Clapp; title: Cool is in the eyes of the beholder / Maryll Kleibrink; title: No garden of Eden / Susan Varlamoff; title: Terrorist targets and sitting ducks / Rick Hind; title: Braving the storm / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Ed Wiley and coal river mountain: the walk to the White House / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Finding Dionne's smile / Dianna Wentz; title: Franklin Gage: a pint-sized powerhouse / Ralph Nader; title: Burn baby, burn / Charlie Cray; title: The senator's new shoes / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Where are the young people? / Ralph Nader; title: Hands across the river: people triumph over fear / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Kill the fish / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Scratch and sniff / Stephen U. Lester; title: Let the chips fall where they may / Maryll Kleibrink; title: LULUs, NIMBYs, and peanut butter / Charlie Cray; title: Meltdown and the mansion / Gary Michael; title: Biting the hand that feeds you / Roger Cook; title: One in a million / Ginny Hoyle; title: The science of perseverance / Luella Kenny; title: Radio active funeral / Gary Michael; title: A light in the storm / Sharon Franklin; title: Toxic Texas tea / Suzie Canales; title: Seven-year miracle / Jill McElheney; title: Shoe shiners union / Stacey Gonzalez; title: Speak up / Alyssa Schuren; title: Defeated by land and sea / Stephen U. Lester; title: Students bring science to the streets / Ken Geiser; title: Are government officials smarter than an 8th grader? / Stacey Gonzalez; title: The roadkill campaign / Gary Michael; title: Making a stink about the stink / Mike Schade; title: Own your own landfill! / Lois Marie Gibbs; title: Making polluters pay at the bake sale / Anne Rabe; title: The last straw (berry) / Roger Cook; title: Voting with your feet / Stephen U. Lester; title: Town umpire calls it like it is / Ralph Nader.