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Robin Read
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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
Come the essential uprising, whose side will you be on?
Outraged by the witness video, Cam Borlaug joins the swelling protest at a police station on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Amidst tear gas and rubber bullets, she struggles to stay on her feet after a flash grenade explodes nearby. A firm hand pulls her out of the miasma and splashes milk into burning eyes--another baptism under fire by BLM leader Maya Fortier. Fellow activists call her Cahmie-kaze after she bolts past baton-wielding cops and shoulders a fallen comrade to safety. Maya offers her a room in Movement House, where she and the brilliant autist Rayna come to share puppy chow, and a bed, by summer's end.
That fall, Cam puts eight boogaloos in their place after they destroy an Extinction Rebellion protest float. Soon an enterprising Ojibwe named Namid turns her into a climate-movement rock star. On Indigenous Peoples' Day, she and her Lightship Greta 2.0 crew brave heavy rains and a right-wing blockade during their ten-mile trek to the state capitol in St. Paul. Even if they do make it, there's no guarantee the governor will heed their call to cancel the tar-sands pipeline project up north.
Will this daring protest-or any other--make a difference? Cam's armada of activists aim to find out.
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