FRANCIS MOORE LAPPE, legendary activist and author of Diet for a Small Planet, and organizer-scholar ADAM EICHEN team up to examine the roots of our current anti-democracy crisis, the events that drove us to this moment, and how Americans are uniting in response. They explore how people from all backgrounds, committed to an array of social-justice causes, are creating what they call the “Democracy Movement”―a hopeful push for historic change.
Lappé, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Eichen is a Democracy Fellow at the Small Planet Institute, cofounded by Lappé, and a board member of Democracy Matters, and he served as deputy communications director for Democracy Spring. Lappé and Eichen, separated by generations, are united in the movement for a living democracy and work together in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.