Artist Merchandise - Books
Betty Krawczyk publications
Open Living Confidential. (From inside the Joint)
2008
ISBN-0-9809170-0-0
price - $ 17.99
Buy online w/ PayPal.
"In Open Living Confidential Betty Krawczyk gives us much more than a fascinating and vividly written prison journal. She gives us insight, compassion, rage, grief, belly-shaking humour, absorbing anecdotes and indefatigable faith and above all she gives us truth. Truth is Betty's Holy Grail. She lives for it, no matter what the personal consequences, and in this book she pursues truth and speaks it with courage."
~ Gabor Mate, M.D., internationally known physician and author
Open Living Confidential (From Inside the Joint) chronicles Betty Krawczyk's ten month prison term in the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women following her second arrest for protesting the clear cutting of the Elaho Valley.
The book gives the reader insight into the lives of the women who are incarcerated there, including the famous juror, Gillian Guess. Krawczyk, using the work of anthropologists, also weaves a tale of how the many ups and downs of the fortunes of women may have happened historically. And leaves women readers with the scientific but little heralded fact, that female humans are the most biologically advanced and complicated creatures evolution has ever produced.
Lock Me Up or Let Me GO
2002
1-55192-465x
price - $ 17.99
Buy online w/ PayPal.
"... a moving paean to the ancient trees of the West Coast, quoting Hegel and de Beauvoir and pronouncing those who destroy the environment guilty of 'defying fundamental truths about the universe'"
~ Quill and Quire
This is the dramatic and unlikely story of Betty Krawczyk's participation in the struggle between a forestry company and citizens concerned about the fate of the rare ancient forests in British Columbia.
Mother, grandmother, and passionate activist, Krawczyk became one of the most visible faces of this struggle, and this book covers her very public (and much publicized) arrest, trial, and sentencing. Despite its serious subject, this book is also energetic, engaging, and funny.
Betty's portraits of her mother and relatives in her native Louisiana offer a warm contrast to the drama of the courtroom and the solitude of the prison cell.
Clayoquot. The Sound of My Heart
1996
ISBN 1-55143-076-2
price - $ 17.99
Buy online w/ PayPal.
"Betty Krawczyk was born in 1928 and raised in East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana, swamp land and red neck country. I certainly was not raised to be a protester," she says. "I was raised a poor, country, southern white woman." Before her Daddy became a preacher, he was a peddler of tonics. His Liberty Tonic was supposed to be good for whatever ailed you. "I think the main ingredients of Liberty Tonic were iron and Castor oil and Mississippi River mud," she writes."
~ B.C. Bookworld
"It seems an unlikely setting to have bred a woman who would become an advocate for all the fashionable causes for the last 40 years"
~ Globe and Mail
This inspiring book relates the story of Betty Shiver Krawczyk from her humble beginnings in Southern Louisiana to her 'retirement' to the picturesque coastal region of British Columbia. Ms Krawczyk, with eloquence and humour, honesty and insight speaks of her three marriages (and eight children), her emerging political and philosophical awareness and her willingness to stand strong in support of her convictions.
Her sense of justice prevented her from slipping into oblivion when she retired to ten acres of quiet forest in the Clayoquot Sound. When logging companies threatened the majestic old growth forests of her backyard, Betty joined protesters on the front lines. Her actions led to an arrest, trial and eventual conviction. Before her ordeal was over, she had spent four and a half months in BC prisons.
Despite the subject matter which, at times, is grim, humour and a fine flair for story keep the reader fully engaged and entertained. This is an inspiring book for all of us who have ever wondered in the face of systemic evils, 'but, what can I do?" Here is one woman, who on the strength of her convictions, has done an awful lot to make this world a better place. Her story deserves to be read widely and is a testament to the power of individual strength and determination in the face of tremendous odds
~ By a customer
w - bettysearlyedition.blogspot.com
