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May 2026—Angela Davis, Julia Butterfly Hill, Ed Winters and More

Time flies. May is done, well, almost.  Let's see what I read. 1. Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis You can guess from the name what the book's about.  "..the force of a new intelligence against the old ignorance. The struggle of an enlightened conscience against the whole brood of social miseries, born out of the stress and pain of a hated past." Talking about a miserable/hated past, one thing pops up: slavery is so bad that a mother chose to kill her own daughter so that she would never know what a woman suffered as a slave. I had heard of Margaret Garner before (I have read Beloved twice). I hate slavery.  Angela Davis is worth reading. 2. Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill "I had no clue what I could do, but I knew I was meant to do something." And she did.  She lived in a tree named "Luna", a thousand-year-old redwood, to save her from clear-cutting.  I'm a fan. 3. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert I haven't finis...