Igniting a Revolution effectively tells a holistic story of revolutionary environmentalism through poems and essays that take us on a journey full circle from the background to the spiritual essence to the necessary actions. In an age when wars are waged over oil and other natural resources, we need to use this book as a tool to speak to larger audiences about the sci-fi reality TV show we are trapped in where there is a race to artificially create and "perfect" all that is natural, desirable, and necessary.

- Autumn Marie
Critical Resistance, Prisoners Of Conscience Committee, Sistas on the Rise

Igniting a Revolution's eclectic collection of radical voices speaks truth to power with an audacity and freshness of perspective that are essential to transforming this perilously troubled post 9/11 world. As important, these essays help to continue--and yet, redefine--a much needed conversation among a wide range of activists and scholars committed to such a transformation.

- Winston Grady-Willis
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University; Author, Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977

Can extralegal means justify an end? The future of terrestrial life itself may depend on whether or not serious debate on that very point is put back on the public agenda. Igniting a Revolution threatens to do just that.

- Chris Hannah
Propagandhi

Only in a society this removed is love a revolutionary act. Read this book, change your heart. Gen 1:29

- D.J. Rose
Father, husband, tattooer, singer of the Path of Resistance

The authors of Igniting a Revolution urgently demand that we take stock of our role and purpose as global citizens. Igniting a Revolution demands our attention, taking us from a world of observation and analysis to one of direct action politics.

- Peter McLaren
Author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution and Capitalists and Conquerors

This book is both a protest against human greed and arrogance and a call for revolutionary action to reverse the accelerating pace of our planet's destruction.

- Charles Patterson
Author of Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

In an age of insurgent conservativism, fundamentalism, and militarism, it is more than heartening to come across a hopeful book that reminds us of this planet's REAL “coalition of the willing”: the diverse cross-section of human beings who adamantly refuse to allow corporations and bad governments to destroy Mother Earth. These writings put to rest the lie that sane environmental polices are impossible to achieve or that revolutionary activism is a thing of the past. Reading this book will not only assure you that a better world is possible, but that its realization is a desire of the majority.

- Dr. Scott Richard Lyons
Native American Studies Program, Syracuse University
Columnist, Indian Country Today

Before his 1969 assassination, Chairman Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party in Chicago famously remarked that, "When one of us falls, 1000 will take his place." This book proves Fred's point. No matter the degree of repression visited upon it, the spirit of revolution cannot be quelled. To the contrary, it will continue to evolve until ALL are truly free.

- Ward Churchill
A uthor of A Little Matter of Genocide and On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

Best and Nocella’s volume is unlike any other work available on this topic. Igniting a Revolution is a profoundly important and timely volume, and one that I and many other scholars in the field will find extremely useful.

- Dr. Matthew Calarco
Chair and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Sweet Briar College, Virginia

There's no way that anyone can agree with everything laid out in this collection. But there is no way, either, that we can afford to ignore these varied voices, because the one sure path to destruction is that of business as usual.

- Joel Kovel
Author, The Enemy of Nature

This radical book seeks to uncover the roots of the environmental crisis we’ve created in search of solutions to what its contributors identify as in great part our lack of emotional bonds to the earth. Igniting a Revolution provides a stimulating sounding of ideas to help us decide what courses of action to take.

- Dr. Karen Davis
President, United Poultry Concerns, author of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry

Igniting a Revolution is a collection of essays which will stimulate and challenge even the most hardened of cynics to reassess their thinking on many levels.

- Dr. Nik Taylor
Lecturer in Sociology, Central Queensland University, Australia

Their tactics are controversial, and are often labeled as violent, but there is no doubt that these insurgents represent the new cutting edge of the movement for a healthy planet and a just peace with nature. We may not agree with their tactics, or even their claims that the destruction of property is justified by our dire circumstances, and is ethical and essentially non violent, but we ignore their message of crisis and hope at our own peril.

- Mike Roselle
Founder of Earth First!
Publisher of Lowbagger.Org

As we face unprecedented ecological crises, along with growing political violence and state repression, revolutionary environmentalists claim that another world is possible. This book promises important insights into radical alternatives and principled resistance.

- Dr. John Sorenson
Department of Sociology, Brock University

Industrial society is destroying our planet. It must be stopped by any means necessary. If you agree, read this book. If you don't, read this book.

- David Rovics
Musician