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21/08/2025
Sunnyside folks, you've got several chances to catch Mitch Friedman during the Eastern WA leg of his summer book tour. He'll be appearing in Ellensburg, Spokane, Tonasket and Mazama on consecutive nights, Sept. 2-5. Hope to see you out in the wild!
Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more.
Hey Spokane, come join us at Auntie's Bookstore for a reading/signing with renowned conservationist and author Mitch Friedman. Intro by columnist/author AMMI MIDSTOKKE! Wednesday, Sept. 3rd @ 6pm.
Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more.
Thank you, Spokane, for showing up for this sold-out event! And we are so grateful to all who made it such a success: Kristi Burns with Northwest Passages Book Club, Yvonne Esquibel Smith with Comma, Nick Gibson with the The Spokesman-Review, Gonzaga University, the Latah Books crew, and of course, author Jim Thomas.
18/08/2025
Join ATOMIC PILGRIM author James Patrick Thomas at Annie Bloom's Books in Portland this Thursday at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Greg Carpinello, Executive Director of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.
ATOMIC PILGRIM is a riveting account of the 6,700-mile Bethlehem Peace Pilgrimage across the USA and nine other countries and the author's subsequent decades seeking the truth about radioactive contamination released from Hanford and other nuclear weapons sites.
ATOMIC PILGRIM is the story of how one person's faith, actions, and persistence can impact seemingly immovable systems and hold even the most powerful bureaucracies to account.
Hey Bellingham, we hope to see you at Hotel Leo this Friday night for the launch of Mitch Friedman's new book!
Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First! activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more.
We are elated to announce that Mitch Friedman's new book, Conservation Confidential, is officially available today!! Hopefully you can catch Mitch at one of his many upcoming events throughout Washington. But if not, you can get a print edition of his book at www.latahbooks.com/store, Bookshop.org, Amazon, or your favorite indie bookstore like Auntie's Bookstore in Spokane or Third Place Books in Seattle. eBook and audio editions are also available at all the usual places, and the audio is narrated by Mitch himself.
Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First! activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more.
Tonight's Atomic Pilgrim event at Gonzaga University is sold out!!
If you were hoping to get a ticket at the door, you'll have another chance to see Jim Thomas speak in Spokane soon. He'll be returning for this "Hanford Leaks, Legends, and Legacies" panel event at the Central Library on Saturday, September 20th at 3pm: https://events.spokanelibrary.org/event/14138404
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James Patrick Thomas’ voicemail ends with “I wish you peace.”
08/08/2025
Atomic Pilgrim author Jim Thomas made a recent appearance on the "My Nuclear Life" podcast. Listen now.
James Patrick Thomas speaks to Shelly about his walk for nuclear disarmament in 1981 which lasted 20 months. Along with 18-19 other pilgrims, James left...
31/03/2025
We are ecstatic to announce that Mitch Friedman's stirring and profound memoir/guide on strategy -- Conservation Confidential: A Wild Path to a Less Polarizing and More Effective Activism -- is now available for pre-order!
"A legend in the conservation community, with myriad landmark successes over his decades of activism, Mitch Friedman distills the lessons he has learned. Brutally honest, poignantly reflective, and beautifully written, Conservation Confidential is the open-hearted story of a life well-lived."
~Denis Hayes, CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, author of Cowed, and national coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970
"Older generations of activists owe it to their successors to pass down what they've learned, a charge Mitch Friedman forthrightly fulfills in these pages! His advice won't please everyone, but it demands engagement from anyone who cares about the wild world around us."
~Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun and co-founder of 350.org
Conservation Confidential: A Wild Path to a Less Polarizing and More Effective Activism is a memoir and guide on strategy for activists from Mitch Friedman, a national leader in the conservation movement and founder/Executive Director of Conservation Northwest
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Located in downtown Spokane, Washington, Latah Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to the publication of meaningful, well-crafted books and to helping fill the interstitial spaces in our literary community.
We are proud to collaborate with numerous award-winning and bestselling authors, and we especially enjoy supporting the careers of writers typically underrepresented and overlooked in today’s literary ecosystem: authors from rural and small-town America, authors from working-class and blue collar backgrounds, incarcerated authors, and authors of color. While we can only publish a small percentage of the manuscripts we receive through our traditional publishing program, our mission is to support as many emerging authors as possible through our writing workshops and Indie Support program.
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