Twelve Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians discuss "militarism, religion, the environment, voting rights, the Patriot Act, the economy, prisons and crime, and other subjects significant to the South and the nation ... the twelve share the beliefs that the current policies of our national administration sacrifice the interests of the poor and the people who work for a living to the interests of a privileged elite, that the power of money and the military must be tethered, that the natural environment must be sheltered, and that racial justice matters"--Dust jacket.… (more)