Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739127500 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Honest and vibrant look at two activists who extend love within their family and the world Monica Maria Tetzlaff This book is beautifully written and inspiring. Alice and Staughton Lynd accompany each other, workers, and poor people working for justice and peace around the world.
Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd have edited Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History; Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians; Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers; and The New Rank and File.
After retirement, they became advocates for prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under supermaximum security conditions. In the Youngstown, Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file organizations. Both were educated to be teachers—Staughton as a professor of history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. Through trips to Central America in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept of “accompaniment.” To them, accompaniment means placing themselves at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of expertise. Staughton and Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Their story will encourage young people seeking lives of public service in t
This is a memoir to inspire the next generation. Their lives practicing 'accompaniment' inspire hope that a better world is possible and show us that the journey is worth the pain. Theirs is a story of lives given daily in thought and action towards building a world of peace and justice. The real grist in this mill is the account of two people searching for community, for peace, and for justice. The Lynds imagine their children and grandchildren taking in their experience and building on it, and hope we will do the same. Through that winding journey, they were rock-like in their co