Join Author Rivera Sun for a special, (virtual) 4-session, small group book club on Winds of Change, a wild tale of resistance and resilience. Hopeful and visionary, the story explores nonviolent activism and participatory democracy in a world that could be our own.

(This novel is part of the Dandelion Trilogy; you do not need to have read the other books. Join us!)

Dates: Mondays, May 2, 9, 16, 23

Time: 4:30-5:30pm PT // 7:30-8:30 pm ET

Sliding Scale: $50-$100 - pay what you can

All proceeds support Backbone Campaign. With a contribution of $50 or more, we’ll send you the book and save your spot in this limited space, 4-session weekly gathering on zoom with Author Rivera Sun. (Int’l friends will receive a digital ebook.) 

Support Backbone Campaign by joining the Winds of Change Book Club!

We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week, along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

BELOW, please type "1" in the ticket level box that corresponds to the amount you'd like to pay. (DO NOT type the amount, ie 100 or 50) If you have any difficulty with the registration process, please email [email protected]

About the book:

The clock is ticking . . . and the winds of change are blowing!

With the planet in peril and people struggling to survive, it's all hands on deck for the Dandelion Insurrection.

As natural - and human-made - disasters strike, the dandelions organize creative solutions all across the country: people-powered relief efforts, mutual aid groups, cooperative programs, community-wide potlucks, tool sharing, resilience plans, and more. Zadie Byrd Gray and Charlie Rider crisscross the United States, tracking down these hopeful and inspiring stories. Before long, a powerful shift starts growing in this fertile soil of love and resistance. Fed up with the lack of compassion in the halls of power, the dandelions launch real democracy projects in neighborhoods and communities, workplaces, schools, businesses, social clubs, and beyond.

But as ordinary people solve their problems without politicians, the rich and powerful fight back. The wealthy plot to thwart them. The corporations try to stall them. The politicians race to block them. When a megachurch preacher launches a doomsday mission to stop them, the Dandelion Insurrection faces a choice that threatens everything they stand for.

Winds of Change is a story like no other, a tale of resistance and resilience, hopeful and eerie all at once. The living Earth rises up for justice. The debts of the past come due. Teens and elders alike rebel for life and the future. With courage and love, the Dandelion Insurrection must navigate fires and floods to rise from the ashes and bloom in the wreckage. But they must act swiftly, for the clock is ticking . . . and the winds of change are blowing