Ebook {Epub PDF} Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson by S. Brian Willson

Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson via Paying The Price For Peace June 1, · The S. Brian Willson documentary -- a portrait of the peace movement painted through the telling of one incredible individual story is coming to www.doorway.ruers: Blood on the Tracks, The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson, A Psychohistorical Memoir. S. Brian Willson (PM Press, ) Most people know Willson as the man run over by a train while protesting the shipment of arms to Vietnam from Concord, California (the train's crew sued him claiming they had PTSD from the incident they caused while exceeding their speed limit!). Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index After serving in the Vietnam War, S. Brian Willson became a radical, nonviolent peace protester and pacifist, and this memoir details the drastic governmental and social change he has spent his life fighting www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:

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Overview Tell a Friend. “We are not worth more, they are not worth less.”. This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson’s story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a “Commie-hating, baseball-loving Baptist,” moves through life-changing experiences in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and elsewhere, and culminates with his commitment to a localized, sustainable lifestyle. This book is a photographic autobiography of a U.S.-American nonviolent revolutionary, a companion to the author's psychohistorical memoir, Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson. On 1 September Willson and three others sat on the track to stop the train. The train did not stop, his companions jumped clear but Willson was seriously injured and lost his legs. The incident is described movingly in the book and is illustrated by many photos of the tragic day.