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goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others

it slowly grows to mean much more: it becomes a place where they can share jokes and traumatic experiences

After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island

And Gavin knew that he was a boy—even if others saw him as a girl

Common Ground cid_5469 goaded by the activism ofIn Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, the book describes a groundswell of action in which citizens of all ages, races and political stripes