You can control corporate polluters, rebuild your neighborhood, develop good jobs, restructure public welfare, improve schools, or change the treatment that you receive from local police, landlords, or public administrators. Roots to Power shows you how to organize with other people to resolve problems that arise from everyday situations--not just to win one special reform or institutional change at the present time, but to build a long-term, collective power base with a capacity to win battles in the future by tapping economic, electoral, and direct-action sources of power.
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?The message in Lee Staples' Roots to Power is in the subtitle: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing. His organizing model emphasizes the individual and direct participation.... It is practical and the presentation is clear and concise.... It gathers a lot of useful principles and tips about how to build and run an organization.?-Clinical Sociological Review
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If you want to bring about change (or stop change) in your neighborhood or in society at large, you should read this book. Organize a group, develop a leader, recruit members, foster their confidence that they do really have power. The book describes the role of the paid organizer in detail. It helps me understand better who Obama is. I'm a Tea Party free-enterprise advocate. This book has some good ideas for us, too.
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A grain elevator on the banks of the Mississippi River pollutes a New Orleans neighborhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organizational mileage, internal fundraising, formation meeting, choosing issues, systematic recruitment, dues pitch, bargaining committee, affected constituency, welfare rights organization, floor team, organizing issues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mile High, New York, Warren Haggstrom, Manager of Safety, Saul Alinsky, Will Delay, Action Research, Bess Clout, Father Flanagan, Las Vegas, Bill Pastreich, Mark Splain, New Orleans, Vintage Books New!
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A grain elevator on the banks of the Mississippi River pollutes a New Orleans neighborhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organizational mileage, internal fundraising, formation meeting, choosing issues, systematic recruitment, dues pitch, bargaining committee, affected constituency, welfare rights organization, floor team, organizing issues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mile High, New York, Warren Haggstrom, Manager of Safety, Saul Alinsky, Will Delay, Action Research, Bess Clout, Father Flanagan, Las Vegas, Bill Pastreich, Mark Splain, New Orleans, Vintage Books New!
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- First Meeting (Skyways) by Anne Rowe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky on page 24, and page 94
- One Step Forward by Rosie Harris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lobbying on a Shoestring (2nd Edition) by Judith C. Meredith on page 188
- Social Welfare (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information on page 24
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- Organizing for Power and Empowerment by Jacqueline Mondros in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- How Schools Really Work: Practical Advice for Parents from an Insider by Saul Cooperman in Back Matter
- Community Practice: Models in Action (Community Practice Series) by Marie Weil on page 136
- Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom by Donna Hardina on page 73
- On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer by Peter Frumkin in Back Matter
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