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DESCRIPTION:discussing her new book\n\nNecessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt\n\nfrom 
 Nation Books\n\nNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice\n\nNecessary 
 Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to 
 permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of 
 unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few 
 years we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century black 
 freedom struggle with BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street, and the 
 grassroots networks supporting presidential candidates in defiance of the 
 traditional party elites.\n\nIn Necessary Trouble, journalist Sarah Jaffe 
 leads readers into the heart of these movements, explaining what has made 
 ordinary Americans become activists. As Jaffe argues, the financial crisis 
 in 2008 was the spark, the moment that crystallized that something was 
 wrong. For years, Jaffe crisscrossed the country, asking people what they 
 were angry about, and what they were doing to take power back. She attended 
 a people's assembly in a church gymnasium in Ferguson, Missouri; walked a 
 picket line at an Atlanta Burger King; rode a bus from New York to Ohio 
 with student organizers; and went door-to-door in Queens days after 
 Hurricane Sandy.\n\nFrom the successful fight for a $15 minimum wage in 
 Seattle and New York to the halting of Shell’s Arctic Drilling Program, 
 Americans are discovering the effectiveness of making good, necessary 
 trouble. Regardless of political alignment, they are boldly challenging who 
 wields power in this country.\n\nSarah Jaffe is a Nation Institute fellow 
 and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social 
 movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in The 
 Nation, Salon, the Week, the American Prospect, the Washington Post, the 
 Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-host, with Michelle 
 Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as an editorial 
 board member at Dissent and a columnist at New Labor Forum. Necessary 
 Trouble: Americans in Revolt is her first book. Jaffe was formerly a staff 
 writer at In These Times and the labor editor at AlterNet. She was a 
 contributing editor on The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street Movement is 
 Changing America, from AlterNet books, as well as a contributor to the 
 anthologies At the Tea Party and Tales of Two Cities, both from OR Books. 
 She was also the web director at GRITtv with Laura Flanders. She was one of 
 the first reporters to cover Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for $15, has 
 appeared on numerous radio and television programs to discuss topics 
 ranging from electoral politics to Superstorm Sandy, from punk rock to 
 public-sector unions.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/18/18792431.php
SUMMARY:Sarah Jaffe
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA 94133
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/18/18792431.php
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