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Through the story of the community organization [Joan Minieri] and [Paul Getsos] co-founded with the late welfare rights activist Gail Aska-Community Voices Heard (CVH)-they show how to use the tools they provide. The introduction lists the key ingredients for building community power: People: "more people means more power", participation, political education, strategic campaigns, an ideology and organizing. Combined, they can create "major socioeconomic shifts through nonviolent means" at home and abroad by "skillfully riding a wave of public unrest and engaging a mass number of people in leadership and action"
Asked how they'd feel if their book appealed to folks fighting for everything from decent jobs, affordable housing or immigration reform, to an end to police brutality, the war in Iraq or Columbia University's expansion into Harlem, Getsos said, "Oh God, that's why we wrote the book-to educate, mobilize and empower people who really want to do effective campaigns."See the full content of this document
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Activists Pen Book On Community Organizing
"Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community" co-authors Paul Getsos and J...
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