The Politics of Broken Dreams
by
Marcy Westerling and Arlene Stein
| August 18, 2012
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Summer 2012
An interview with Marcy Westerling, a leader in organizing rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. Westerling talks about such topics as her activism, the shifting winds of American populism, and living with a terminal illness.
Authors
Marcy Westerling For three decades, Marcy Westerling has been a leader in organizing rural communities in the Pacific Northwest to respond to violence, bigotry, and injustice. She founded Oregon’s Rural Organizing Project, which trains residents of small, often isolated, communities to advance democracy and human rights.
Arlene Stein is Professor of Sociology and serves on the graduate faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers. Her research interests include sexual politics, social movements, political culture, trauma, and collective memory.
