{"product_id":"my-whirlwind-lives-navigating-decades-of-storms-paperback","title":"My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDee C. C. Knight\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur recent storms didn't start in 2020 or 2016. They started decades ago in the 1960s - a whirlwind of threatened nuclear catastrophe, then police dogs and rednecks terrorizing civil rights marchers down south, then Vietnamese children fleeing from napalm flames. Then draft notices to go to Vietnam to \"fight commies.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small town boy started by supporting rightist Goldwater against the \"peace candidate\" Johnson, but rapidly changed in the face of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and started a quest that hasn't ended yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells Dee Knight's story of \"waking up\" to the truth about the US war in Vietnam, then refusing the draft and going to Canada where he lived for six years. It relates the years-long campaign for amnesty, in which Knight was a leader. After war resisters won a partial amnesty, Knight continued campaigning against US wars up to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are chapters on: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe political storms of 1968\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExile life in Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe years-long campaign for universal unconditional amnesty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntiwar veterans and active duty soldiers and sailors, including the sanctuary movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitnessing Portugal's \"Carnation Revolution\" of 1975\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiving and working in Sandinista Nicaragua\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocialism and the Green New Deal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Messages from the Future\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflections on the Pandemic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Battle to Expand and Protect Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendices on Vietnam's victory in 1975, and on the reality of life and politics in China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52470007529779,"sku":"9798990725522","price":23.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pzoP-fqR9u9798990725522.webp?v=1759409623","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/my-whirlwind-lives-navigating-decades-of-storms-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}