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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.