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by Rebecca Solnit


  and gold mining, 95–108

  Waters, Alice, 289

  We Are the 99% (website), 216–217

  Weathermen (activist group), 41–42

  Wedeman, Ben, 28

  Welch, Calvin, 43, 44

  Wenceslas Square, 22

  West (western United States), 53–54, 60–67, 88, 91, 92, 249, 253, 255

  Western Shoshone (Nevada), 87, 98

  Wheelan, Drew (bird rescuer), 110, 116, 122, 133

  White, Richard (historian), 278

  white people (see also Iceland), 46, 63, 69, 72–79, 84–94, 97, 130, 232, 233, 234, 248–249, 263, 268–269, 280

  Wikileaks, 24–25

  Wikipedia, 138, 249

  Wilde, Oscar, 23

  Williams, Troy (prisoner), 280–281

  women, 22, 26, 36, 43, 146–147, 149–150, 167, 190, 279, 280, 282, 317

  Women Strike for Peace, 190–191

  women’s rights, 47, 214, 282, 317, 319

  wood, 10, 21

  Woolf, Virginia, 146, 305

  World Trade Organization (WTO), 30, 91, 168, 241, 246, 247, 319

  Young, Abe Louise (poet), 119, 133

  Young, Coleman (mayor), 72–73, 79

  YouTube, 111, 173, 218, 219, 249, 270

  Zapatistas, 168, 311–321

  Zodiac raft, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 21

  San Francisco writer REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of sixteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include The Faraway Nearby; Men Explain Things to Me; Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster; Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. She has worked on climate change, Native American land rights, and antinuclear, human rights, and antiwar issues as an activist and journalist. A contributing editor to Harper’s and a frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com, Solnit has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.

 

 

 


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