Marisa Handler

foreword by Rebecca Solnit

In this personal and political narrative in the BK Currents series, journalist and activist Marisa Handler offers both a compelling coming-of-age memoir and an eye-opening insight into the global justice movement.

As an activist with Code Orange, Handler was instrumental in Direct Action to Stop the War, helping to organize the shutdown of San Francisco on March 20, 2003, following Bush's declaration of war on Iraq.

Handler's journey into political activism criss-crosses the globe, from growing up in apartheid South Africa to fighting for justice in Israel, India, Latin America and the U.S. She demystifies direct action and presents spiritually based, nonviolent activism as the means to building a just world.

"Insightful and charming, spiritually rich and emotionally honest, Handler's writing shows that tikkun olam, the healing of the world, is not some outdated fantasy but an ever-present possibility." (Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right)