HEART POLITICS

By Fran Peavey, with Myra Levy and Charles Varon

Foreword by Frances Moore Lappe

"Shows us how we can respond to the critical issues with both humour and sensitivity. Recommended for libraries."--Library Journal

"Funny things happen when Fran and Charlie invite their audiences to laugh at the notion of global annihilation. For one thing, everybody laughs."--Los Angeles Times

“Reads like a combination of Mark Twain, Candide, Thomas Jefferson, and Erma Bombeck. A vital contribution to sanity and survival.”--Joanna Macy

“A lively journey from innocence into the world where people suffer oppression, contempt, diseases and war, it’s really an investigation into a minute-by-minute determination to change the world in neighborhoods and nations. Here is great happiness in the struggle, original humour, and the example of joy.”-- Grace Paley

Fran Peavey of the internationally touring “Atomic Comics” tells of her encounters with elderly tenants facing eviction from their residential hotel, with alcoholics and street people longing for self-respect, with ordinary citizens awakening to the threat of nuclear war, with Indians dedicated to cleaning up the Ganges River, with prostitutes in Bangkok worried about their children’s education, with civilians caught up in the tragedy of the Middle East conflict. Compassionate, thought-provoking, and extremely funny, Heart Politics shows us that we can respond to critical issues with humanity and humour.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: ConnectednessChapter 2: Seeds
Chapter 3: Connection in Action: The International Hotel
Chapter 4: A Sense of Place: Sixth Street Park
Chapter 5: The Hidden Member of Our Family
Chapter 6: American Willing to Listen
Chapter 7: Would You Do This to Your Mother?
Chapter 8: The Human Family at Its Worst
Chapter 9: How Can I Keep from Laughing?
Chapter 10: The Power of Context
Chapter 11: Us and Them
Chapter 12: Obstacles to Change
Chapter 13: Tales of Change
Epilogue: A Letter to the People of the Future