We Can Change the World
Book description
The early 1970s were a time of tremendous upheaval and unrest. Fed up with civil rights abuse, the military draft, the Vietnam War, business-as-usual politics, and lack of access to healthy life choices, visionary Americans began building an alternative world. They wanted to change the world and they did.. Overwhelming…
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The setting is magical, the characters are relatable, the plotline is organic in more ways than one. And, surprise! It's all real. This isn't a fantasy. This is Eugene, Oregon in the early 1970s and we're at the Eggsnatchur Natural Foods Restaurant. Our storyteller recalls his younger days, his travels, and how he left Kansas with a tank of gas, a good friend, and a vague notion of finding a liberal college out west. What he found instead was a town filled with like-minded idealists, who banded together with him as both family and employees at the restaurant he created…
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