Peter Matthiessen

Sep 3, 2024 | rsn.org | Peter Matthiessen

In his fight for California farm workers, the labor organizer took on wage theft, racism, and the threat of automation. His activism changed everything. One Sunday morning last summer, I knocked on the door of a small frame house on Kensington Street, in Delano, California, that is rented by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee for the family of its director, Cesar Estrada Chavez. It was just before seven, and no one came to the door, so I sat down on the stoop to wait.

Jun 25, 2024 | thecreativeindependent.com | Peter Matthiessen |David Graeber |David Wengrow |Margaret Killjoy

Writer and musician Margaret Killjoy discusses where inspiration comes from, why fiction is important even when the world is dying, and what “Stonewall was a riot” really means.

May 22, 2024 | mountainandprairie.com | Jim Collins |Peter Matthiessen |Simon Sinek

Sandy Colhoun is the President of the National Outdoor Leadership School, also known as NOLS.

Apr 2, 2023 | wob.com | Peter Matthiessen

HomeNon-Fiction BooksLifestyle, Cooking and LeisureTravel & holidaySummaryRecords the experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks, the beauties of strange seas and landscapes and the camaraderie, humour and tension of people who live in close proximity and risk their lives day by day.