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Freedom, they tell us, isn't free. The cost of freedom isn't cheap; it's shock and awe aggression, it's proud of it's country right or wrong, it's unquestioning -- it follows orders, from the president, to the governor, to the local cop, while giving orders to the rest of the world -- dominating, hard-bitten, hard-nosed, decisive . . . it's blood, sweat, tears, guts, and conquest, it's occupation of foreign soil for foreign oil, it's shrewd, brutal, unrelenting, merciless, and oh, so gloriously patriotic. Troop surges and civilian casualties are the cost of freedom; violence, bloodshed, death, destruction, genocide, torture, incarceration of evildoers . . .
Challenging this suspiciously heinous conception of patriotism, novelist Mike Palecek started asking many hard questions, but he wasn't getting straight answers, so he began to contact peace groups and to gather stories from activists across the United States who had a different perspective on what the cost of freedom might be. He found accomplices to his quest in Whitney Trettien, a student, and Michael Annis, an independent publishers, who became his co-editors. The three of them working together assembled more contributions from many others who knew that America was losing her Constitution to liars, murderers, and thieves.
Through 2005 to 2007, they gleaned letters, articles, sentencing statements, songs, poems, and images into Cost of Freedom. From a grandmother's stay at Camp Casey to a young man's counter-inauguration protest (and subsequent run-in with the FBI), the Cost of Freedom, an anthology of grassroots activism, documents the everyday revolutionary acts of over 75 courageous men and women -- common citizens with an uncommon resolve and mission in life for peace, truth, and liberty, oftentimes at their personal expense.
To stand as one against tyranny . . . Cost of Freedom celebrates that.
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