These are the voices of the world ... of youth emerging into radical adulthood ... beautiful, hopeful, youthful, even in the face of great and terrible repression.
-- Mumia Abu-Jamal, political prisoner and award-winning journalist

To hear these informed and insistent voices is to hear from people doing the essential work of democracy. I revel in them! They are daring to confront The Powers That Be with the most basic of political questions: 'Who the hell is going to be in charge a handful of global greedheads, or We the People?'
--Jim Hightower, Hightower Radio

This book of stories from a new generation of activists who are engaged in a life-transforming endeavor to make the world what the Qur'an calls 'an abode of peace' is of historic significance. In Islam, justice is a pre-condition for peace. The stories in this book represent a passionate quest for justice in a profoundly unjust world. The book is enlightening, uplifting and inspiring. It will be a blessing to those who read it.
-- Dr. Riffat Hassan, professor of religious studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky and the founding director of the INRFVVP, a network of organizations to combat violence against women in South Asia

Global Uprising goes deeper into what made headlines in the Battle of Seattle. It makes it clear that youth are not leaders of tomorrow -- they are leaders of today. It not only puts a human face to the struggle, but it awakens us to the possibility of change lying within each one of us. A must-read.
-- Anuradha Mittal, Co Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Global Uprising is essential reading for anyone who cares not to live in a dying world of personal oppression, under the thumb of a rising neo-fascism called the corporate-political-military complex. Peaceful nonviolent resistance is our only way out, as most of the writers in this book understand.
-- Doris 'GrannyD' Haddock, author of Granny D: Walking Across America in my 90th Year

A powerful global kaleidoscope of people working for justice.
-- Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen

Collections have many facets, to be explored differently by different people.. For me, the special worth of this collection rests in the stories of people's action, of how individuals and groups arouse themselves, prod and inform themselves, organize themselves, reach out and get good things done. These stories should inform others, helping them travel their own unique, yet also so similar, roads. -- Michael Albert, Co-founder of South End Press, Z Magazine, and ZNet

Inspiration is the fuel of movements and Global Uprising represents a diverse range of inspiring voices that bring hope to our relentless struggle against local and global injustice. This coming together of insights, motivations and strategies shines the light on the optimism and creativity fueling our many movements that are destined to create new models for governance and co-existence. Yet the light also exposes some of the human misery that also fuels these movements as we strive to work with humility, clarity and compassion.

The more we learn about the struggles and successes of others, the greater our chances for linking up and mobilizing in unity. This book helps explain the parallel-path strategies of exposing the injustices and greed while we build new models that will someday allow us to ignore and move beyond our corrupt and out-dated systems. Global Uprising confirms that we are on the right path.
-- Dan Merkle, a Seattle attorney who helped start the Independent Media Center for the WTO protests, currently working to reform the criminal justice system.

The new world we have entered since 11 September 2001, has catapulted us into a time where we need all the voices and visions we can muster. Global Uprising brings together some of the point-riders showing us the way to a world that works for everyone. This is crucial information and knowledge for the times we now inhabit.
-- Michael Toms, CEO, New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network, Executive Producer of New Dimensions Radio Series and Co-author of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do