Creative Community Organizing: A Strategy Manual For Rabble Rousers, Activists And Quiet Lovers Of Justice

Author: Si Kahn

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ISBN : 9781605094441
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Publication date : 01 March 2010
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Outlines many of the practical tactics organizers use. This work suggests ways that readers can identify and analyze the various options for action, weigh the positives and negatives and make choices among them. It focuses on the end goal and then determines the best strategies, tactics and methods to achieve that goal.

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Si Kahn has worked for over 40 years as a civil rights, labor and community organizer, author, and musician in the Southern United States. Si is the executive director and founder of Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit organization that advocates for several causes, including prison reform, improved immigration detention policies, and violence prevention. Si Kahn and his wife, Elizabeth Minnich, live in Charlotte, North Carolina

Preface: A different kind of community organizing book Chapter 1: Making a difference Chapter 2: Democracy from the grassroots up Chapter 3: Communities: Unorganized, organized and re-organized Chapter 4: Thinking like an organizer Chapter 5: Working backwards Chapter 6: Asking the right questions Chapter 7: Persuasion and pressure Chapter 8: Patience Chapter 9: Dealing with established power Chapter 10: Community organizing in the electronic age Chapter 11: Ethics Chapter 12: Community organizing as a way of life Afterword: Shoulders