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"History has taught...it is not enough for people to be angry-the supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 23, 1968

"It's Not Enough to Be Angry" is a collection of the recent writings of Willie Baptist. The title essay - a reflection from Baptist's more than 50 years of political activity and leadership in the struggle against poverty and oppression - draws on the study of history, political economy, ideology, and organizing strategy to offer an analysis of the global problems facing our whole society today, and points to a way forward for organizers and leaders looking to solve those problems.

Taking a close look at our current economic and social crises, Baptist exposes their roots in the on-going shift from an international economy to a globalized economy, a shift based on the transition from labor-saving to labor-replacing technologies made possible by micro-electronics. In the face of the massive economic and social dislocation wrought by that shift, Baptist argues that the best response is to fight for the unity of the global poor and dispossessed as the leading force in a social movement to transform our society from one that prioritizes profit to one that prioritizes human well-being. Baptist, looking to examples from American and world history, puts forward the need to educate and unite leaders emerging from various and often scattered poor people's struggles around the world as central to the process of uniting the poor and dispossessed as a whole.

The book also includes two other essays: an interview done with Baptist by John Wessel-McCoy and a reflection on the organizing efforts that Baptist helped lead to protest the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Willie Baptist is a formerly homeless father of three who came out of the Watts uprisings and the Black Student Movement. He has 50 years of experience educating and organizing amongst the poor and dispossessed including working as a lead organizer with the United Steelworkers; as an educator and organizer with the National Union of the Homeless and its educational arm, the Annie Smart Leadership Development Institute; as the Education Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union for 10 years; and as a lead organizer and educator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, as well as many other networks. He is a Board member of the National Welfare Rights Union, the United Workers of Baltimore, Picture the Homeless in New York and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Wildfire Project. He presently serves as the Poverty Initiative Scholar-in-Residence and Co-Coordinator of Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development for the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary.

Willie is the author of numerous books, articles, and pamphlets including "Pedagogy of the Poor", "A New and Unsettling Force: Re-Igniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign", "Lessons from the Poor Organizing the Poor: 5 Main Ingredients and the 6 Panther P’s."

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013Q4L82A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of the Poor Press; 1st edition (August 10, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 10, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2214 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
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S. O'Reilly

A great book drawn from the lived wisdom of Willie Baptist

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2015

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A great book drawn from the lived wisdom of Willie Baptist, an unsung hero in the fight for a just and equitable society. Baptist is a strong exegete of our current conditions, and pulls from his vast reservoir of knowledge to describe the task at hand.

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Nicholas

His perspective is key to understanding how to move forward on organizing the poor and dispossessed to build real power in order

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2015

I had the privilege of helping to edit this book while it was being prepared for publication at the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. Willie is an inspiring organizer and an incredible intellectual. His perspective is key to understanding how to move forward on organizing the poor and dispossessed to build real power in order to radically alter the economic structures that keep people in poverty today. This book is a great place to start. I think I read it four times during the editing process and learned something each time.

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