The Jobs Revolution That Wasn’t
German government: created 400,000 jobs
Yi Xu, “Fact Sheet: Jobs in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency,” ed. Laura Small, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, December 23, 2014, http://www.eesi.org/?papers/?view/?fact-sheet-jobs-in-renewable-energy-and-energy-efficiency-2014.
Germany: 30 percent of energy comes from renewables
US Energy Information Administration, “Germany’s Renewables Electricity Generation Grows in 2015, but Coal Still Dominant,” Today in Energy, May 24, 2016, https://www.eia.gov/?todayinenergy/?detail.php?id=26372.
Howard Zinn: “The really critical thing isn’t…”
Howard Zinn, Terrorism and War (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002), 110.
Remembering When We Leapt
1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City: death toll
“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire,” Occupational Safety and Health Administration website, accessed April 18, 2017, https://www.osha.gov/?oas/?trianglefactoryfire-account.html.
When Utopia Lends a Hand
Gilded Age strikers: “cooperative commonwealth”
Alex Gourevitch, From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/?files/?history-culture-society-workshop/?files/?introduction_and_chapter_4.pdf.
Robin D.G. Kelley: “black-led biracial democratic, populist, and radical movements”
Robin D.G. Kelley, “Births of a Nation,” Boston Review, March 6, 2017, http://bostonreview.net/?race-politics/?robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation.
Upton Sinclair: 900,000 votes
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1934), x.
Milan Kundera: “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999), 4.
Trapped in the Matrix
Junot Díaz: “Those of us whose ancestors were owned…”
Junot Díaz, “Under President Trump, Radical Hope Is Our Best Option,” New Yorker, November 21, 2016, http://www.newyorker.com/?magazine/?2016/?11/?21/?under-president-trump-radical-hope-is-our-best-weapon.
Oscar Wilde: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia…”
Oscar Wilde, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays (New York: Harper Collins, 1989), 1089.
CHAPTER 12
Lessons from Standing Rock: Daring to Dream
Missouri River: drinking water for 17 million people
Jan Hasselman, “Why It’s Right to Keep the Brakes on the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline,” Washington Post, November 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?opinions/?why-its-right-to-keep-the-brakes-on-the-dakota-access-oil-pipeline/?2016/?11/?02/?aebc5cbe-a118-11e6-8832-23a007c77bb4_story.html?utm_term=.a9d314749d42.
“Mni Wiconi”—in English, “water is life”
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Mni Wiconi—Water Is Life (video), Stand with Standing Rock website, accessed April 19, 2017, http://standwithstandingrock.net/?mni-wiconi/.
Standing Rock: 750 people arrested
Blake Nicholson, “UN Official: Tribe Not Properly Heard in Pipeline Dispute,” AP.org, March 3, 2017, http://staging.hosted.ap.org/?dynamic/?stories/?U/?US_OIL_PIPELINE_UNITED_NATIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-03-13-14-54.
Two thousand military veterans arrive in Standing Rock
Ben Klayman, “More than 2,000 Veterans Acting as Human Shields at Standing Rock Protests,” Independent (London), December 1, 2016, http://www.independent.co.uk/?news/?world/?americas/?standingrock-2000-veterans-human-shield-protests-dakota-pipeline-a7448976.html.
Veterans: “to serve and protect”
Louise Boyle, “Exclusive: The Veterans Who’ve Joined Dakota Access Protests to ‘Serve and Protect’ Activists and Have Already Rescued Native Americans’ ‘Stolen’ Canoes,” Daily Mail (London), December 3, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/?news/?article-3996166/?The-veterans-ve-joined-Dakota-Access-protests-serve-protect-activists-rescued-Native-Americans-stolen-canoes.html.
Peaceful Indigenous water protectors brutally attacked
Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin, “Standing Rock Protesters Hold Out against Extraordinary Police Violence,” Guardian, November 29, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2016/?nov/?29/?standingrock-protest-north-dakota-shutdown-evacuation.
The network of camps: roughly ten thousand people
British Broadcasting Corporation, “Dakota Access Pipeline: Is the Standing Rock Movement Defeated?” BBC.com, February 9, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/?news/?world-us-canada-38924160.
Learning by Living
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: “My grandkids can’t believe…”
Interview with author, December 2016
Cody Two Bears: “We taught them how to grow food…”
Author’s reporting, December 2016
Age of the Protectors
Wesley Clark Jr.: “Many of us, me particularly…”
Nadia Prupis, “Native Leaders Formally Forgive Veterans in Emotional Ceremony,” CommonDreams, December 6, 2017, https://www.commondreams.org/?news/?2016/?12/?06/?native-leaders-formally-forgive-veterans-emotional-ceremony.
A Path through Anger
Bismarck: majority-white population
United States Census Bureau, “QuickFacts: North Dakota,” Census.gov, accessed April 19, 2017, https://www.census.gov/?quickfacts/?table/?PST045216/?38.
Winona LaDuke: “This is a moment of extreme corporate rights…”
Winona LaDuke, “The Beginning Is Near: The Deep North, Evictions and Pipeline Deadlines,” Indian Country News, November 29, 2016, http://www.indiancountrynews.com/?index.php/?columnists/?winona-laduke/?14339-the-beginning-is-near-the-deep-north-evictions-and-pipeline-deadlines.
Global Witness: “More than three people were killed a week in 2015…”
Global Witness, On Dangerous Ground (London: Global Witness, June 2016), https://www.globalwitness.org/?en/?campaigns/?environmental-activists/?dangerous-ground/.
Roughly $80 million pulled from the banks invested in the DAPL
Julia Carrie Wong, “Private Investor Divests $34.8m from Firms Tied to Dakota Access Pipeline,” Guardian, March 1, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2017/?mar/?01/?dakota-access-pipeline-storebrand-norway-divest-standingrock.
Julia Carrie Wong, “Dakota Access Pipeline: ING Sells Stake in Major Victory for Divestment Push,” Guardian, March 21, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2017/?mar/?21/?dakota-access-pipeline-ing-sells-stake-loan-standing-rock.
Tokata Iron Eyes: “Like I have my future back”
Naomi Klein, “The Lesson from Standing Rock: Organizing and Resistance Can Win,” Nation, December 4, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/?article/?the-lesson-from-standing-rock-organizing-and-resistance-can-win/.
CHAPTER 13
Red Lines