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Hope at Midnight

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. Posted December 24, 2004.


A widening of the lenses through which we've been taking in our post-election world might remind us that elsewhere on this modest planet people are at work on futures imagined quite differently from the grim ones the Bush administration offers.

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Rebecca Solnit is the author of 'Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities'. The ideas here were generated as she revisited the book for a new edition.

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