Anna Becker’s Reviews > The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America > Status Update

"violence is a symptom [of multigenerational poverty], as is infant mortality and premature birth" -Dr. Victor Garcia (Van Gelder 90).

In the game of capitalism...the most effective thing is to always keep people in survival mode (Van Gelder, 86)

This restorative economy will be of little use to transnational corporations and Wall Street banks because much of the profit will come in forms that can't be readily extracted from the region. Instead, the benefits will flow right back to the communities: Clean water for drinking and irrigation. Clean air. (Van Gelder 57).