Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing, and decolonization is a new book published by Matt Soltys, longtime activist and journalist from Guelph, Ontario. The book features 12 of the most powerful interviews from Healing the Earth Radio, which aired from 2005 to 2010.

New book: Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing, and decolonization

Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing, and decolonization is a new book published by Matt Soltys, longtime activist and journalist from Guelph, Ontario. The book features 12 of the most powerful interviews from Healing the Earth Radio, which aired from 2005 to 2010.

Tangled Roots brings together world-renowned author and peak oil educator Richard Heinberg, former political prisoners Jeff 'Free' Luers and Ramona Africa, Indigenous warrior Kanahus Pellkey from the Native Youth Movement, Dakota author, professor, and activist Waziyatawin, award-winning author and herbalist Stephen Buhner, award-winning medical and science journalist Blake Levitt, as well as permaculture teachers, authors, professors, and veteran environmental justice activists.

Published July 2012 by Healing the Earth Press, Tangled Roots is rounded out by introductions that contextualize and weave together the tangled roots explored by the contributors, 13 original illustrations, extensive endnotes, and a chapter by the editor.

Tangled Roots seeks to accomplish several things:

- to inspire solutions to the ecological crisis that address the root causes of the problems

- to deepen our understanding of the intersections of environmentalism, social justice, ecology, psychology, mental health, decolonization, and resistance

- to dissolve these subcultural boundaries and encourage greater solidarity

- to inspire and strengthen front-line activism that protects the earth and builds healthy community

Check it out at www.HealingTheEarthPress.org.

What others are saying:

"Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing, and decolonization is a collection of interviews from a broad spectrum of activists that seeks to penetrate to the root causes of the global system of oppression & exploitation. In essence, it is a radical critique of the industrial society now encompassing the earth, primarily focusing on anti-capitalist and ecological resistance. A thought-provoking and highly educational book on many aspects of what is, admittedly, a complex subject matter that involves several thousand years of development & expansion. Despite this, it is highly accessible due to the format: a collection of interviews culled from 5 years of Healing the Earth Radio, based in Guelph, Ontario."

- Gord Hill, Indigenous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial artist and writer, author of 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book and Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book.

"Here are well-crafted and interesting interviews that expand the conversation - some will make you uncomfortable, which is okay. You don't need to agree with everything, but you do need to know what people who aren't like you are thinking."

- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and Hope, Human and Wild

"In this stunning and ambitiously interdisciplinary collection of interviews, Matt Soltys has managed to draw a diverse range of topics, from climate change to colonialism to the burgeoning military-industrial complex, away from the sphere of academia and into the realm of accessibility and public consciousness. Tangled Roots offers a truly holistic and comprehensive picture of the world in the 21st century, illustrating the deep connections and potential allegiances between feminism, Indigenism, environmental justice and anti-globalist struggles. As the forces of Neoliberalism, capitalism and military and cultural imperialism become increasingly globalized, so too must the forces of resistance - Tangled Roots is a testament to the profound interconnectedness of each of our lived experiences, offering glimpses of what a new age of co-operation, solidarity and mutual aid among social movements worldwide could look like."

- Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, author of These Burning Streets and editor with the Fifth Estate magazine