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Achieving the Impossible: Stories of Courage, Caring & Community
* Please note, this book is self-published and is only available by ordering directly from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice. Call 703-237-2249, ext. 27 or email jkim(at)chej(dot)org.
This collection of heart-warming, humorous and inspiring short stories illustrates how people have stepped forward to meet the challenges facing their communities and celebrates their willingness to engage in our democracy.
Imagine your mother dressing up like Marge Simpson with huge blue hair to attend a public meeting to stop a nuclear waste dump in the community. Or holding your labor union’s awards ceremony on the steps of the county jail – where your keynote speaker was suddenly being held.
Achieving the Impossible is about ordinary people that create extraordinary change in their communities. By any standard, these people are heroes, in the fullest sense of the word.
This collection of heart-warming, humorous and inspiring short stories illustrates how people have stepped forward to meet the challenges facing their communities and celebrates their willingness to engage in our democracy.
Imagine your mother dressing up like Marge Simpson with huge blue hair to attend a public meeting to stop a nuclear waste dump in the community. Or holding your labor union’s awards ceremony on the steps of the county jail – where your keynote speaker was suddenly being held.
Achieving the Impossible is about ordinary people that create extraordinary change in their communities. By any standard, these people are heroes, in the fullest sense of the word.
145 pages
First published November 30, 2008
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