Portraits of Earth Justice

Americans Who Tell the Truth

Portraits of Earth Justice
Robert Shetterly
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29 Sep 2022 US
9781613321874
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Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly' s magnificent color portraits and profiles of fifty environmental and climate activists-people who diagnose the truth of the greatest crisis humanity has ever confronted and take action. The book also features original essays by revered environmentalists Bill McKibben, Leah Penniman, Diane Wilson, Bill Bigelow, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose words illuminate the plight and its causes, and point a way forward. Along with the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the institution of slavery, the third tragic and persistent mistake of the leaders of this country was to attempt to separate economic and political culture from the laws of nature-to operate on the basis that nature could be exploited endlessly for profit. The damage done to the Earth and to the future of life on the planet is incalculable. The people portrayed here have bought warnings, offered solutions, and organized movements to restore ecological sanity.
Portraits of Earth Justice illuminates the humanity of forward-thinking advocates taking critical bold actions on the challenge of our lifetime: the climate crisis. At a time when democracy and the very life support systems of humanity are threatened, let these beautiful faces and works inspire you to keep rising up, or rise up for the first time, to preserve our rights and this beautiful and sustaining planet for all of our children and future generations. --Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children' s Trust Americans Who Tell the Truth offers much-needed rays of hope in times made dark by the climate crisis and deep inequality. It provides uplifting portraits, both verbal and pictorial, of courageous activists who have devoted their lives to the fight for climate justice. ----David M. Driesen, University Professor, Syracuse University College of Law; author, The Specter of Dictatorship It is rare that you come across a book as stunningly impactful as Portraits of Earth Justice. The essays by this diverse cast of environmental protagonists are riveting and Rob Shetterly' s portraits of people who love and care for the earth are piercing in their beauty and depth of character. I can' t think of a better way to move people, particularly young people, from despair about the climate crisis to empowerment and inspiration than sharing this gift to Mother Earth that Rob Shetterly has created. --Medea Benjamin, author and cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace Through Robert Shetterly' ss masterful portraits of brilliant women and men activists in the work of doing justice to the soil and the plants and animals we need to nurture, and through their passionate essays imploring us to cherish instead of despoil the only Earth we have, this book empowers us. Like the words of Sandra Steingraber inscribed in her portrait, ' We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. ' --Peter Davis, Academy Award winning filmmaker, author of Girl of My Dreams
Robert Shetterly is a visual artist, social activist, and writer. For the past twenty years, he has painted portraits of citizens who address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness in the series Americans Who Tell The Truth, now the subject of the Kane Lewis documentary Truth Tellers. Shetterly' s portrait project is also recorded in a multi-volume book series, the first of which is Portraits of Racial Justice (2021). Shetterly has contributed to various collections of drawings and etchings across the U. S. and Europe. Since 1990, Shetterly has been a producer of the Maine Masters Project, a video documentary project highlighting Maine artists, and has served as President of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. Shetterly lives and works in Brooksville, Maine.
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ISBN-13: 9781613321874
Published: 29 Sep 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: New Village Press
Publisher: New Village Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 279mm
Width: 216mm
Pages: 128

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