How Martin Luther King organized
things
The stress of activism
Turning 30 in the 1960s
A Roadmap for Radicals
Why counter protests don't work
Rewinning the working class
How the young can save us
What we can learn from the South
The power at the bottom
Why the elites won't save us
Rebuilding America: Rev William Barber on the moral approach
Beyond identity politics
Organizing students
The stress of activism
Turning 30 in the 1960s
A Roadmap for Radicals
Why counter protests don't work
Rewinning the working class
How the young can save us
What we can learn from the South
The power at the bottom
Why the elites won't save us
Rebuilding America: Rev William Barber on the moral approach
Beyond identity politics
Organizing students
BANKS & CREDIT UNIONS
BOYCOTTS
BPOn boycotts
BPOn boycotts
COLLEGE
Building student unions
Building student unions
COMMUNITY
The community land trust alternative
The community land trust alternative
CORPORATIONS
How to organize a anti-corporate personhood drive
Background info on ALEC
States and towns that have taken action against Citizens Unite
Corporation Search
Employee ownership and co-ops: key to a new economy
INTERNET
How progressives can use TwitterHow progressives can use FacebookLabor law concerning social media
How to organize a anti-corporate personhood drive
Background info on ALEC
States and towns that have taken action against Citizens Unite
Corporation Search
Employee ownership and co-ops: key to a new economy
INTERNET
How progressives can use TwitterHow progressives can use FacebookLabor law concerning social media
LABOR
Right to work laws explainedList of cars made by the UAW
MEDIA
How to answer people like Rush Limbaugh
NON-PROFITS
The non-profit blues: Can the revolution be funded?The care and feeding of non-profit boards
ORGANIZING & PROTESTS
Roots ActionWhat the Situationists could tell the OccupiersLeading from behind198 methods of non-violent actionMeetupsTechniques of mediatorsWhy protest worksWhy rallies failKnow your rightsDefend yourself against tear gasRights of photograpersCellphone guide for protesters
PEACE
Global nonviolent action database
PHOTOGRAPHY
A guide to your public photography rights
RELIGION
Cleveland congregations join in activism
SCHOOLS
Activist teacher's handbookHow to stage a boycott at your school
WOMEN
Hiring more high tech women
OTHER THINGS TO DO
How to keep Wall Street really occupied without living in a tentWhy public banks work
Right to work laws explainedList of cars made by the UAW
MEDIA
How to answer people like Rush Limbaugh
NON-PROFITS
The non-profit blues: Can the revolution be funded?The care and feeding of non-profit boards
ORGANIZING & PROTESTS
Roots ActionWhat the Situationists could tell the OccupiersLeading from behind198 methods of non-violent actionMeetupsTechniques of mediatorsWhy protest worksWhy rallies failKnow your rightsDefend yourself against tear gasRights of photograpersCellphone guide for protesters
PEACE
Global nonviolent action database
PHOTOGRAPHY
A guide to your public photography rights
RELIGION
Cleveland congregations join in activism
SCHOOLS
Activist teacher's handbookHow to stage a boycott at your school
WOMEN
Hiring more high tech women
OTHER THINGS TO DO
How to keep Wall Street really occupied without living in a tentWhy public banks work
ESSAYS
SOUNDS OF CHANGE
Bob
Dylan: Blowin' in the Wind
Woody Guthrie: This land was made for you and meSome great Labor Day songs
Woody Guthrie: This land was made for you and meSome great Labor Day songs
Civil
rights
Billie
Holiday: Strange fruit
Prince: Baltimore
Prince: Baltimore
Ecology
Economy
Gay
War
ACTIVIST READING
Rethinking activism
A guide to non violence
FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Howard Zinn's collected speeches
A guide to non violence
FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Howard Zinn's collected speeches
Jane Adams: A
new biography
Ten ways the occupy movement changes everything
The establishment that no longer is
Living in a dysfunctional family called America
Change the culture; the politics will follow
America has to learn how to manage its decline
Confronting post-political disorder
How communities can take on government and corporations
A biography of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers
Learning from the Sixties: Memoir of an OrganizerThis Changes Everything: The meaning and importance of the occupy movement
The establishment that no longer is
Living in a dysfunctional family called America
Change the culture; the politics will follow
America has to learn how to manage its decline
Confronting post-political disorder
How communities can take on government and corporations
A biography of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers
Learning from the Sixties: Memoir of an OrganizerThis Changes Everything: The meaning and importance of the occupy movement
The Man Who Never Died: A bio of labor organizer Joe Hill including evidence that
he was framed
Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the
Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. . . Through his brilliant analysis, psychologist
Bruce Levine explains the process by which mainstream America has become
demoralized and docile, how those in power maintain that power, and what it
will take to turn things around."--Jim Gottstein, President/CEO Law
Project for Psychiatric Rights
Small
Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World by Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in
the Counterculture by Paul Krassner . Krassner,
a long-time contributor to the now deceased print edition of the Progressive
Review, is out with an expanded edition of his memoirs. .
. .
ON
GANDHI'S PATH: BOB SWANN'S WORK FOR PEACE AND COMMUNITY ECONOMICS by Stephanie Mills. Robert Swann was a
self-taught economist, a tireless champion of decentralism, and the father of
the relocalization movement. A conscientious war resistor imprisoned for his
beliefs, Bob Swann engaged in lifelong nonviolent direct action against war,
racism, and economic inequity. His legacy is a vision of a life-affirming,
alternative economy of peace founded on innovations in land and monetary
reform.
Great Soul: Mahatma
Gandhi and His Struggle With India. How Gandhi became Gandhi
HOW INTERNET RADIO CAN CHANGE THE WORLD: AN ACTIVIST'S
HANDBOOK
BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, by Michael Jacoby Brown, Long Haul Press, $19.95.
BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, by Michael Jacoby Brown, Long Haul Press, $19.95.
CALLING ALL RADICALS: How
Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy, by Gabriel Thompson, Nation
Books, $14.95.
TOOLS FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY: How to Organize for Power in Your Community, by
Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos, Chardon Press, $29.95.
Taking Back our
Neighborhoods: Building communities that work, Mary Wachter, Cynthia Tinsley. A step-by-step plan for
creating a more pleasant, less violent neighborhood.
The Careless Society:
Community and its Counterfeits, John McKnight.
Considers how the efforts of "experts" may in fact be destroying
neighborhoods; celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within.
Focuses on four "counterfeiting" aspects of society: professionalism,
medicine, human service systems, and the criminal justice system. Has
reflections on Christian service and its transformation into carelessness.
Going Local:
Creating self-reliant communities in a global age, Michael Shuman. Many
communities are handing out corporate welfare to encourage businesses to
relocate to their areas. Presents positive alternatives: (1) invest in
locally-owned businesses like credit unions, cooperatives, community land
trusts, municipally owned utilities, small worker-owned firms, community
development corporations, local share-holder owned firms; (2) focus on
import-replacing rather than export-led, i.e. reduce dependence on distant
sources of energy, water, food, and basic materials; (3) eliminate many
subsidies and change tax and trade laws. A challenge to conservative and
liberals alike. I have ordered this one myself.
From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic
Development, Gregory MacLeod. The
Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain grow out of the teaching
of the social justice doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. In the 1950s, five
people joined together in a cooperative to make paraffin stoves in a garage.
Today, the Mondragon cooperatives have more than 30,000 owner-employees in over
100 different enterprises, doing everything from manufacturing machine tools to
distributing groceries.
Organizing the South Bronx. Jim Rooney, Nathan Glazer. A study of the process by which
the residents of an impoverished urban neighborhood were educated and organized
to fight the city government for vacant land and build low-cost, owner-occupied
housing. Such organizing, mainly working through traditional churches, is
rapidly growing in the US and has close relatives in Latin America. Pricey, but
very interesting.
Organizing for Social Change: A manual for activists in the 1990s, Kim Bobo, et al. A
comprehensive manual for grassroots organizers working for social, political,
environmental, and economic change at the local, state, and national level.
The Activist's Handbook:
A primer for the 1990s and beyond, Randy Shaw. A true handbook, has detailed
examples of action in a wide variety of areas - crime prevention, affordable
housing, ecology, and etc. Analyzes campaigns that succeeded and some that
failed.
Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots
Organizing, Linda Stout, Howard
Zinn. Uses an organizing model with seven principles: focus on social change,
work across lines of race and class, diversity of outreach and training,
linking local and national issues, developing personal empowerment and
organizational power, flexibility to meet changing circumstances. Intriguing.
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A path toward finding and mobilizing a community's assets,
John Kretzmann and John McKnight. Studies successful community-building
initiatives in hundreds of US neighborhoods.
Let the People Decide:
Neighborhood organizing in America (Social Movements Past and Present), Robert
Fisher. Updated and revised, studies the period 1886 to the 1980s
Fight Back:
How you and your neighbors can take action to improve your community, Dennis
King. An investigative reporter takes would-be community activists through the
basic steps.
Rules for Radicals:
A practical primer for realistic radicals, by Saul Alinsky.
The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits, John McKnight. Considers how the efforts of
"experts" may in fact be destroying neighborhoods; celebrates the
ability of neighborhoods to heal from within. Focuses on four
"counterfeiting" aspects of society: professionalism, medicine, human
service systems, and the criminal justice system. Has reflections on Christian
service and its transformation into carelessness.
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