Wind Cries Freedom: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution

The Wind Cries Freedom is an oral history of a Next American Revolution. Eighteen interviewees report and explain their personal motives, means, methods, debates, feelings, and choices. They offer the lessons of their actions to hopefully help answer the pivotal questions of our time: What new institutions do we want in place of what we now endure? What means of organizing and activism can we use to attain our aims?

The interviewees' answers have both a personal and a programmatic dimension. What did the actors feel and choose? What logic guided their organization's founding, structure, and program? What vision did they seek, and by what strategies, tactics, and personal means?

Their accounts start from the American present day and address all sides of life, including economy, family, religion, legality, polity, sports, education, healthcare, and more. Can freedom win? Their stories say yes. Their pursuit of freedom succeeded in their time and place. Their stories tell how. As our world suffers indignities, immediate violations, and existential dangers, their reports of how they attained a new world speak directly to us.