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Author
Publisher
My Creative Community
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you dream of launching a community innovation center, want to enhance your town with colorful murals, or are simply looking to strengthen relationships with your neighbors, Designing Creative Communities is the guide for you" --
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy.
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Overturning more than 200 years of fear-based dehumanization, punishment and trauma, Zachary Norris presents a comprehensive new vision of care-based public safety for America that actually holds people accountable for harms rendered, that tackles the harms currently going unaddressed, and that prevents many harms from happening, through strengthened relationships, strategic investment of resources, and a stronger democracy"--Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Micro Activism, former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find our most satisfying and effective activist role. Williams encourages starting small, working collaboratively, and beginning locally. Advice on self-care practices, burn-out prevention, and profiles of activists engaged in a range of activities and causes (from voter registration to craftivism,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Essays, profiles, and interviews about issues in social and political action, including climate change, immigration, gender and sexual orientation, racism, women's rights, religious freedom, and intersectionality. Also includes practical information about tools for effecting change.
"Walk the walk, talk the talk-- change the world! Are you the type of person who doesn't accept "it is what it is"? Are you wondering what you can do to make the world...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest...
19) Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power: community organizing in radical times
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The story of some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s, in a deeply sourced narrative history. Historians of the 1960s have emphasized the work of a small group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality at home. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and even, racists. [The authors], who have...
