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Kirkus Reviews

“Reid’s persistent optimism throughout this book will come as a comfort to many news-weary readers, who may be discouraged by the fact that government agents have continued to use extreme violence against protestors—including those who’ve exercised strategies that are very similar to those in this book. Resistance, he writes, ‘is about separating ourselves from our fear and undoing fear as the ground of our collective existence.’ Many readers, looking for hopeful guidance, will be cheered by how the author so clearly lays out such ideas.”

--Kirkus Reviews

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Preface: New Edition

Since the kickoff of the 2016 presidential campaign, a climate of fear and intimidation has dominated national life in the United States to a degree rarely seen before, poisoning our politics and reaching into our very relationships with friends, co-workers, and neighbors.

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Bernie Sanders Interview with Rachel Maddow, March 4, 2020: closing words

Here are the concluding minutes of the interview. A dry, verbal excerpt from the full interview doesn't quite capture the flow of leading questions and Sander's responses and how Sanders's maintained a dignified posture throughout with a hostile host.

(Compare with Maddow's warm, sympathetic interview with Elizabeth Warren the following day.)

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