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Roots to Power A Manual for Grassroots Organizing, Second Edition
Lee Staples
ISBN: 0-275-96997-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96997-4
392 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2004
List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £74.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: When ordinary people band together to gain more control over their life conditions, the first order of business is to organize in pursuit of collective action. This how-to manual presents strategies, tactics, methods, and techniques that community members can use to set their own goals, select issues, campaign for these issues, recruit members, develop leaders, hold effective meetings, conduct research, lobby politicians and legislators, and get the word out to the media.

The author brings more than three decades of experience to the task of explaining root principles for developing and exercising collective power; he moves effortlessly from such broad discussions into providing specific tips for effective organizing methods and techniques. Armed with the information in this book, any community can bring about social change through collective action.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements: With a Lot of Help from My Friends
    Preface: From Roots to Tips
    Introduction by Frances Fox Piven
    "Power to the People": Basic Organizing Philosophy and Goals
    "Locate & Relate. Motivate and Integrate. Facilitate & Integrate. ACTIVATE!"--The Role of the Organizer
    "Can't Ya Hear Me Knockin?"--Organizing Models and Methods
    "Analyze, Strategize and Catalyze"--Issues and Strategy
    "Moving into Action"--Making and Carrying Out Action Plans
    "Keeping It All Together"--Organizational Development and Maintenance
    "Nuts and Bolts, Some Do's and Don'ts"--A Short Collection
    Appendix
    References
    Afterword: After Words, Take Action
    Index
    About the Author and Contributors
About the Author: LEE STAPLES is Clinical Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. He has been engaged in grassroots community organizing since the late 1960s as an organizer, supervisor, staff director, trainer, educator, consultant, evaluator, and coach. He remains actively involved in a diverse range of organizing efforts.
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