A story most Americans have never heard, about people never seen, from margins rarely noticed, until the volcano comes again…
Street Wars and the Future of Violence
By Tom Hayden
AVAILABLE IN STORES NOW
For information about hosting or attending author talks/book signing events with Tom Hayden this summer, or for media/press inquiries, contact the author c/o: Erica Zeitlin: 310.559.9522 ext. 4 or email: ericadror@yahoo.com
For book ordering information, contact:
The New Press @ 800.233.4830 or visit www.thenewpress.com
Weaving together groundbreaking research with first-hand street stories from gang members, Street Wars and the Future of Violence proposes a healing process for the young traumatized veterans of street wars and prison gulags, combined with New Deal investments for the forgotten classes at home and abroad.
"Street Wars offers a vision through a door and not through a keyhole... that when it comes to our youth, we must lift them up, not lock them up. This book should be required reading for police, politicians and activists alike."
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
"Hayden provides an honest and gripping frontline account of America's young urban untouchables."
Danny Glover
"Shines a brilliant light into the dark corners of our negligence"
Fr. Gregory Boyle, S.J., Executive
Director of Homeboy Industries
"Showcases some of the positive forces that have a chance to redirect (the) future."
Marian Wright Edelman,
President, Children's Defense Fund
"Remarkable... We can all benefit from what this man on the frontlines has to tell us."
Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA
"A tour de force"
David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
THE GLOBILIZATION OF GANGS |
Tom Hayden is national co-director of No More Sweatshops!, a coalition of labor, clergy, community and campus advocates of "sweat-free" guidelines on public procurement and enforceable labor standards for corporate behavior.
