The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness (53 page)

Reclaim the Streets,
245–246
,
247

revolution (see also
Egypt, Egyptian revolution
),
22–31
,
38
,
42
,
45–47
,
58
,
136
,
143
,
167
,
194
,
220
,
222
,
239
,
243
,
247
,
258
,
296
,
297

  
definition, etymology,
311

  
food revolution,
290
,
291

  
green revolution,
289
,
291
,
293

  
Industrial Revolution,
148

  
Philippines revolution,
220

  
Reagan revolution,
137

  
revolutions per minute,
311

  
Saucepan Revolution (in Iceland),
173–181

  
sexual revolution,
34
,
44

  
Zapatista revolution,
312–321

Richard Hell and the Voidoids (band),
33

Rivera, Diego (painter, communist),
74
,
75
,
77
,
82

rock and roll (see also individual bands),
27–28

Roman-Alcalá, Antonio (gardener),
286–288

Ross, Captain,
14

Rosse, Bill (activist, musician),
87

Rudd, Mark (activist),
41–42

ruins,
17–18
,
39
,
40
,
51
,
65
,
66–67
,
69–72
,
75
,
77–79
,
82
,
130
,
132
,
142
,
153
,
183
,
185
,
190
,
191
,
192–193
,
294
,
299

Rumsfeld, Donald,
308

Russia, Russians,
17
,
18
,
56
,
138
,
175

sadness,
228
,
230

Salton Sea (California),
64–65

San Francisco,
32–37
,
40
,
43
,
44
,
53
,
60
,
88
,
98
,
222
,
248–255
,
264–271
,
286–288
,
289

  
1906 earthquake in,
127
,
190
,
236

San Francisco Bay,
96
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
105
,
106

San Francisco Bay Area,
48–55
,
291–294

San Francisco Estuary Institute,
103–104

San Francisco Zen Center,
291

San Quentin State Prison,
280–281

Sassoon, Siegfried,
285

Saudi Arabia,
65
,
119
,
214

Sendai, Japan,
188
,
190–192

Sennet, Richard,
146–147

September 11, 2001,
36
,
119
,
187–188
,
221–222
,
239

Sierra Club,
65–66
,
91–92
,
111
,
114
,
119
,
133
,
274

Sierra Nevada,
96
,
100
,
103

Sigurðardóttir, Jóhanna (prime minister),
173–174
,
178

Sigur Rós (band),
171
,
172

Silicon Valley,
54
,
55
,
248–271

Sims, Michael (writer),
277–278
,
281
,
283

slavery (United States),
244–245
,
273–275
,
277
,
281
,
282–283

Smith, Patti,
43

Snowden, Edward (whistleblower),
260
,
266
,
268

social Darwinism,
139

Sontag, Susan,
305–306

Sorrow Fjord,
10

Southern Pacific Railroad,
64–65

Soviet Union,
28
,
74
,
75
,
81
,
162
,
194
,
302
,
313

Stanford, Leland,
253
,
254

Stanford University,
55
,
140
,
249–250

Stegner, Wallace,
92

Stewart, Martha (impresario, Circe),
147–150

Stockholm
(ship),
5
,
16–17
,
21

Stormfront White Nationalist Community,
77

Stranglers (band),
46

Ström, Lisa,
9
,
11
,
13
,
20
,
21

Subcomandante Marcos,
315

suburbs, suburbia,
29
,
69
,
72
,
74–76
,
78
,
154
,
156
,
250

Svalbard,
5–21

Sweden,
17
,
19
,
137
,
151

Sylvester (singer),
47

Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA, cult),
41
,
42–43
,
47

Syjuco, Stephanie (artist),
270

Synanon (cult),
36
,
40–41
,
42

Tahrir Square,
25
,
28
,
214

technology (see also individual companies,
nuclear
,
Silicon Valley
),
55
,
65
,
96
,
98
,
114
,
255
,
257
,
258–263
,
300–301
,
304
,
309

Teller, Edward (bomb maker),
62

Thich Quang Duc,
23

Thingvellir, Iceland,
165–166

Thompson, A. C. (investigative journalist),
235–236
,
237
,
239

Thoreau, Henry David, and Cynthia Dunbar, Sophia, and Helen Thoreau,
272–284

toxic, toxins (see also
poison
),
15
,
65
,
90
,
107
,
109
,
114
,
187
,
255
,
289

Tunisia,
23–25
,
213–214

Twitter,
25
,
218
,
257
,
258
,
268

Ulysses
(novel),
152
,
157–158
,
264

United States (see also particular cities, states, movements),
24–25
,
27
,
29
,
30
,
33
,
36
,
42
,
49
,
52
,
55
,
56
,
57
,
60
,
74
,
157
,
160
,
176
,
215–216
,
221
,
225–230
,
243
,
281
,
294
,
299
,
301
,
303–306
,
319–320

  
economic inequality in (see also
Occupy Wall Street
),
31
,
36
,
37
,
57–58
,
76
,
137

  
military,
24
,
49–55
,
162
,
176
,
265–266
,
298–310

Vietnam,
23

violence (see also
domestic violence
,
nonviolence
),
27
,
28
,
26
,
40
,
41–42
,
49
,
51
,
55
,
56–59
,
87
,
97
,
131
,
139
,
140
,
151
,
161
,
166
,
225
,
238
,
253
,
287–288
,
299–302
,
305–306

Virgil,
11

Vonnegut, Kurt,
261

Walker, Scott (governor),
30
,
31

war,
298–310

water (see also
BP Spill
,
climate change
,
Colorado River
,
Glen Canyon Dam
,
Gulf of Mexico
,
Iceland
,
Mississippi River
,
Svalbard
,
tsunami
),
57
,
61–67
,
92
,
97–102
,
163–165

  
and gold mining,
95–108

Waters, Alice,
289

We Are the 99% (website),
216–217

Weathermen (activist group),
41–42

Wedeman, Ben,
28

Welch, Calvin,
43
,
44

Wenceslas Square,
22

West (western United States),
53–54
,
60–67
,
88
,
91
,
92
,
249
,
253
,
255

Western Shoshone (Nevada),
87
,
98

Wheelan, Drew (bird rescuer),
110
,
116
,
122
,
133

White, Richard (historian),
278

white people (see also
Iceland
),
46
,
63
,
69
,
72–79
,
84–94
,
97
,
130
,
232
,
233
,
234
,
248–249
,
263
,
268–269
,
280

Wikileaks,
24–25

Wikipedia,
138
,
249

Wilde, Oscar,
23

Williams, Troy (prisoner),
280–281

women,
22
,
26
,
36
,
43
,
146–147
,
149–150
,
167
,
190
,
279
,
280
,
282
,
317

Women Strike for Peace,
190–191

women’s rights,
47
,
214
,
282
,
317
,
319

wood,
10
,
21

Woolf, Virginia,
146
,
305

World Trade Organization (WTO),
30
,
91
,
168
,
241
,
246
,
247
,
319

Young, Abe Louise (poet),
119
,
133

Young, Coleman (mayor),
72–73
,
79

YouTube,
111
,
173
,
218
,
219
,
249
,
270

Zapatistas,
168
,
311–321

Zodiac raft,
8
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
16
,
19
,
21

San Francisco writer
REBECCA SOLNIT
is the author of sixteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include
The Faraway Nearby; Men Explain Things to Me; Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
;
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
;
Storming the Gates of Paradise
;
A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
;
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
;
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
; and
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. She has worked on climate change, Native American land rights, and antinuclear, human rights, and antiwar issues as an activist and journalist. A contributing editor to
Harper’s
and a frequent contributor to the political site
Tomdispatch.com
, Solnit has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.