A Red States rebellion is breaking out And the battles are waged over the essentials of life

http://redstaterebels.org/


A Red States rebellion is breaking out. It’s been going on for some time. The stakes are high and the odds are long. And the battles are waged over the essentials of life: water, food, wilderness, and human liberty.





“Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Joshua Frank, and thank you Jeffrey St. Clair. Thank you to all who contributed to this absolutely necessary book that tells too-often ignored stories of resistance and rebellion from real people–working class and indigenous people, people with dirt under their fingernails and rage and sorrow in their hearts, as well as a deep and profound love for the land where they live–who are fighting for their lives, for their communities, and for their landbases against the creeping fascism of the corporate state. And thank you most especially to the people about whom these stories are told, people who are in all physical truth risking their lives to stop this culture from killing all they–and we–hold dear.”


–Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame: The Problem of Civilization

“The stakes are high, in the so-called ‘Red States,’ as corporate America, the defense establishment, and an array of minions battle against the biodiversity of the heartland. In this book, Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair skillfully present a diverse set of rebels who defy reckless policies and greedy profiteers. It’s easy to feel enthusiastic gratitude for this collection of stories. Matching the principled stance of the narrators, however, presents a sharp challenge.”

–Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence

“No myth is more urgently in need of debunking than the notion that the ‘enlightened’ residents of so-called Blue states are inexorably pitted against the ‘backward’ masses of so-called Red states. Red State Rebels demolishes this elitist caricature of the vast populace in these regions, which in reality includes Native Americans, migrant workers, Blacks, farmers, environmentalists and, yes, rednecks resisting corporate plunder and the strong arm of the state. Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair have woven together a collection of gripping stories of these struggles, large and small, that are transforming the political landscape from the bottom up. Grassroots organizing is alive and well in these parts, and it could well be argued that these courageous fighters are showing the way forward for the rest of us.”

–Sharon Smith, author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

“Those of us who are tired of being laid claim to by right-wing politicians and tut-tutted over by coastal liberals can now brandish a copy of Red State Rebels and declare, ‘This is the real story out here!’”

–Stan Cox, author of Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine




Jonathan Wilson "Moses Pain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pR_ZakGFU

for thirty years. Rethugs are DESPERATE to get us to
fight each other over RACE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, etc.,
etc. ... anything than what's at the ROOT of this
country's malaise: The rich have stolen from the
poor (and middle class), are continuing to do, and
WILL CONTINUE to do so unless we stop them -- first
of all by NOT BUYING into these "sidebar issues."

“Those of us who are tired of being laid claim to by right-wing politicians and tut-tutted over by coastal liberals can now brandish a copy of Red State Rebels and declare, ‘This is the real story out here!’”

–Stan Cox, author of Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine

“I’m a Renegade, Been a Rebel All My Days…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7QjW2KJkM


Some prayers never reach the sky
Some wounds never heal
They still say someday the South will rise
Man, I want to see that deal

I don't want to grow old gracefully
I don't want to go 'til it's too late I'll
be some old man in the road somewhere
Kneeling down in the dust by the side of the Interstate

I am a renegade
I've been a rebel all my days
I am a renegade
I've been a rebel all my days

We were hopelessly outnumbered
It was a lost cause all along
But when we heard the bugles call
We swore we'd stand or fall together right or wrong

We ain't seen no reconstruction here
Just the scorched earth all around
And the high school band played "Dixieland"
While they tore our tattered flags and banners down

I am a renegade
I've been a rebel all my days
I am a renegade
I've been a rebel all my days

Some prayers never reach the sky
Some wars never end
Some dreams refuse to die
Next time I would rather break than bend

I am a renegade
I've been a rebel all my days
I am a renegade
I've been a rebel all my days