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1) Creative community organizing: a guide for rabble-rousers, activists, and quiet lovers of justice
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Entertaining, funny, sad, dramatic, and inspiring tales of work in some of the most important progressive struggles of the past fifty years, the Southern Civil Rights movement, the Harlan County coal miners strike, the fights to abolish prison privatization and immigrant family detention. Addresses not just strategies and tactics but how creative community organizing can prod us to learn new skills, encourage us to take risks, and transform us into...
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Stripe Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Although communities feel magical, they don't come together by magic. Get Together is a guide to cultivating a community--people who come together over what they care about. Whether you're starting a run crew, helping online streamers connect with fans, or sparking a movement of K-12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them."--
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Mark R. Warren is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Harvard University.
Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network in Texas and the Southwest is gaining national attention as a model for reviving democratic life in the inner city--and beyond. This richly...
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English
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"1965 Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
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Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"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,...
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English
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"In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult-and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she'd ever known. On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions from the Family leader, seven-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community...
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Special report ; PHC80-SP1-41. Rhode Island
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U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
1983.
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English