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Nobody really knows what life will throw at them. And how they’ll change as a result,” says Franke James, who is an activist, artist and author. She has a rare disability called Ataxia (since 2019). Franke has fought City Hall to build a green driveway (and won). Been blacklisted by the Canadian Government for her climate change art—and turned the government’s silencing into international news. Her latest book, Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me, is about choosing her sister’s freedom over her family. Franke helped her younger sister with Down syndrome get out of a nursing home. Then all hell broke loose. The two sisters had to stand together—against their siblings, the medical system, and the police—to defend the right to ...more

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	Freeing Teresa: A True Story About My Sister and Me by Franke James (Goodreads Author), Billiam James (Goodreads Author), Teresa Heartchild (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 62 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bothered by My Green Conscience: How an SUV-driving, imported-strawberry-eating urban dweller can go green 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Totally Amazing: Free to be Me by Teresa Heartchild (Goodreads Author), Franke James (Goodreads Author) (Preface) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Office-Politics: the game everyone plays it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Can Anybody Tell Obama about the Keystone XL? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pretty Amazing: How I Found Myself in the Downtown Eastside by Teresa Pocock, Franke James (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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8 Minutes in the Morning to a Flat Belly: Lose Up to 6 Inches in Less Than 4 Weeks--Guaranteed!

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Franke James shared a quote “So what is bullying? A simple definition of a bully is someone who uses their strength, whether physical, verbal, or emotional, to hurt or intimidate someone else they perceive as being weaker than themselves. Just think about that definition for a second. Think about how general and wide-reaching it is. Then think about all the little things, all the small events that happen every day that could fit that definition—events that most people would think of as perfectly normal and acceptable, not bullying at all.” Lizzie Velásquez
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“The substance of story is the gap that splits open between what a human being expects to happen when he takes an action and what really does happen; the rift between expectation and result, probability and necessity.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

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“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

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“After the events chronicled here, the tales told about Poe Didelot and his mother, Rose, became darker, but not a whit more true. That they persist to this day is a tribute to the human tendency to cling to a falsehood, even when the unadorned truth stands before us, solid and incontrovertible as an oak tree. The fabrications of decades cannot be swept away with a wave of the hand, but there is surely no harm in attempting to set down the truth for posterity, or preparing the visitor for an excursion to a part of this country that may seem like the setting for a dark fairy tale.”
― Jack Todd, Rose & Poe

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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good men do nothing. — EDMUND BURKE”
― Tom Devine, The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth

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