Large-format book, includes 64 photographs

This book is a co-publishing effort by NewSage Press and the California Rural Legal Assistance that highlights the positive changes that have taken place among the rural poor in America. Organizing for Our Lives features six inspiring stories of people engaged in grassroots efforts to build a new leadership and overcome the cultural isolation and poverty that have traditionally kept them separate and ineffective. Their stories include those of East Indian and Mexican parents cooperating to improve their children’s education; Asian refugees’ efforts to find economic stability; a grass-roots Mexican-American women’s group and a farming community fighting a toxic waste incinerator among others.