Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice - Brossura

Kahn, Si

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1605094447 ISBN 13: 9781605094441

Casa editrice: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010

Riassunto

Why can't there be enough food, shelter, jobs, health care, homes, schools, education, safety and security for everyone? How can people work together to challenge the way things are, to help redistribute wealth and power, to create a more just and humane society? The answer is Creative Community Organizing.

This latest work by legendary activist, musician and author Si Kahn, is a different kind of community organizing book. As with other books, including some by Kahn himself, it does outline many of the practical tactics organizers use. But it’s also about community organizing as a way of thinking and a way of life.

Creative Community Organizing suggests ways that readers can identify and analyze the various options for action, weigh the positives and negatives and make choices among them. In other words, focus on the end goal and then determine the best strategies, tactics and methods to achieve that goal. It will help established community organizers become more creative and innovative, encourage them to question established principles and decide whether or not they still work. Those new to the field will discover a whole new way of looking at the world - they’ll gain a new sense of empowerment, understand that things don’t have to be the way they are, that the world can be more fair and humane and that they can live and work in ways that help make that happen.

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Recensione

"Si Kahn has spent a lifetime as a rabble-rouser, an organize, r and a transcendent storyteller. His book is a blueprint for those who really want to make a difference. Read it. Have fun. And change the world." --Donna Red Wing, Chief of Staff, Interfaith Alliance

"Democracy is not a gift bestowed by the powerful on the rest of us. If we want democracy "now," we have to be willing to fight for it--and we need to know how. Si Kahn's passionate new book, based on a lifetime of organizing for justice, offers hope for all of us who will not compromise the dream of democracy." --Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now! "and""author of "Breaking the Sound Barrier"

L'autore

Si Kahn is executive director of Grassroots Leadership (www.grassrootsleadership.org) and a singer and songwriter with fifteen CDs to his credit.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1605094447
• ISBN 13: 9781605094441
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240