The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide |
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Authors: | McMillan, Stephanie |
Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
BISAC/Subject: | POL044000, CGN000000, CGN007000 |
ISBN: | 9781609805128, Related ISBNs: 1609805119, 1609805127, 9781609805111, 9781609805128 |
Classification: | Fiction |
Number of pages: | 160, |
Audience: | General/trade |
From the winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a character-driven tale about our threatened environment and the practicality of putting contemporary revolutionary strategy into action.
In The Minimum Security Chronicles, the latest long-form narrative from Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award–winning cartoonist Stephanie McMillan, lifelong friends Kranti and Bananabelle are rounded up during a protest and locked in a pen by a faraway railroad track. After their escape, when trying to gain proof of their capture, Kranti discovers the future site of a nuclear power plant. After attempting to shut it down, she learns of an even more ecologically dangerous enterprise: a massive geo-engineering project scheduled to begin in a matter of weeks. And so begins the tale of a group of friends—among them an apolitical computer programmer, an aspiring musician who joins the Occupy movement, a lovestruck community gardener, a militant bunny and a guinea pig theorist—who try to halt the plans of evil corporate overlords bent on destroying the earth for profit.
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