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MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change Paperback – March 1, 2004
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In the spirit of simplicity and empowering the citizen, this book is an essential "how to" for becoming politically informed and involved. In this handbook for change, MoveOn members from around the country have written about what it means to be a responsible member of a democracywhat they have done in the past and what they are now doing to help make the United States more accountable, forward thinking, and a better place to live.
The 50 Ways range from simple ideas, such as "Tell a Friend about a Petition" to more dynamic suggestions, such as "Organize a Constituent Meeting," and the editors at MoveOn provided action items and resources for those who want to take inspiration a step further.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNew World Library
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2004
- Dimensions6.04 x 0.41 x 9.12 inches
- ISBN-10193072229X
- ISBN-13978-1930722293
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"MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country" is a user-friendly How-To guide for fixing our broken democracy. Both nuts-and-bolts practical and deeply personal, this book is political Viagra for anyone tired of feeling hopeless, helpless, and impotent in the face of our Big Money/Big Media-controlled political system." --Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist and author of "Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America"
"Cesar Chavez once said the organizer's job is to help ordinary people do extraordinary things. Involving masses of people in a movement to right wrongs and change government policy is what democracy is all about. No one in is doing it better today in America than Moveon.org. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country is a vital primer for every activist interested in progressive social change." --Arturo S. Rodriguez, President United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO
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- Publisher : New World Library (March 1, 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 193072229X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1930722293
- Item Weight : 8.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.04 x 0.41 x 9.12 inches
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The right-wing hate machine wants to keep citizens OUT of the process so they can be free to further plunder the US treasury, drain YOUR social security funds, and promote worldwide hegemony, all in the name of "fighting terror."
This book is about doing your small part to counteract the "dirty tricks" of the RNC with the one thing they can't stand: truthful discussion and honest campaigning. But on the other hand, this book is completely non-partisan, in that every technique and idea could apply to any political party or cause you care to support. It's about restoring democracy in America, period.
For the record, I bought this book and have read numerous selections from it, unlike many of the kneejerk negative "reviews" on here posted before the book was even available.
While I may not agree with the politics of most of the authors, I have to say that reading the individual stories was eye opening to me in the sense of seeing what a difference one person can make in our gridlocked political arena.
I'm so sick of our American government and politics being deadened and directed by extreme, cynical career elites and marketers of both parties. This book offers a rare contemporary glimpse of genuine hope in America for re-establishing our democracy "for the people" -- regardless of what party you belong to.
The stories are also very concrete, factual, and short -- so you can learn a lot.
It was fascinating to read the distilled experience of the 50 people whose stories are here - more than once they were the stories behind campaigns and actions that I have heard of and appreciated but had not known how they got started.
If you like the positive message about how "one person can make a difference" you will love this book. Also if you love the Margaret Mead quote about a small committed group changing the world, that could fit too!
As for me, I am going to buy multiple copies for my son and all his graduating senior friends.
Fifty ways to love your country - a good positive and practical message for anyone from kids up to the most senior among us.
But for the concerned citizen... since it's pretty hard to take direct action on the federal government (as some reviewers also are suggesting?), this is an excellent handbook on how to make your disappointment in the current U.S. government heard (or any democracy for that matter, although we seem to be pretty much the only ones with problems right now). So if you're blood-thirsty and/or closed-minded, for god sakes don't buy the book. But if you're frustrated with the state of our nation and wish to be a part of the change that can restore the much of the world's respect and admiration of the U.S.A., then this book is for you.
True, at times it does lean a little too far in left field (giving serious forward thinkers a silly hippie label), but for it's compact and concise advice to being a concerned yet active citizen, I give it 4 stars.
The moderate liberal Move On has been one of the main forces empowering then and giving them the means to counteract the entrenched power of the right wing establishment. The success of this book will further increase the influence of this patriotic organization fighting to free the country from the harm done it by the power of the right wing's control of the government and the media.
That's why Move On has the right wingers in a tizzy.
