Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes

In Your America award-winning producers John Siceloff and Jason Maloney explore the paths to success of a remarkable group of people each of whom has appeared on NOW the popular PBS show to tell their stories. For everyone interested in change at a local and national level this book provides a blueprint for working together locally to create a better global community.. Your America introduces twelve ordinary citizens who are accomplishing extraordinary changes in their communities. Among them:. *Bill Graham mayor of tiny Scottsburg Indiana who took on the telecommunications giants and wired his town to provide Wi-Fi for all.. *Katie Redford a young law student who dusted off the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789 and ended up changing the way American corporations behave overseas.. *Wynona Ward who drove long-haul trucks as she studied to be a lawyer and founded an organization Have Justice Will Travel that reaches out to abused women in isolated homes and communities.