Chico Peace and Justice Center

April 21, 2008
Chico Peace and Justice Center (526 Broadway)

Marisa Handler is a writer, activist, and singer-songwriter living in San Francisco. She has worked as an organizer in the global justice and peace movements, both outside of institutions and with the Tikkun Community, Direct Action to Stop the War, and United for Peace and Justice. She speaks about social change all over the country, integrating song into her presentations, and has traveled the world writing about sociopolitics and globalization.

Marisa's first book, Loyal to the Sky is a memoir, moving from Marisa's childhood home in apartheid South Africa to Israel, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Peru, and all over the United States. It offers a rare and revealing glimpse inside the global justice movement, and describes how she came to advocate an activism grounded in the principles of interconnection and nonviolence as the best means for building the world we wish to see.

For more information about Marisa, go to

www.marisahandler.com

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