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Willie Baptist has been fighting for the bottom rung of the 99% for all of his life. Now this veteran organizer has a book so the rest of us can learn from his experiences. Highly recommended.
Playbook for Progressives couldn't have come at a better time. Published just as the Occupy Wall Street movement franchise took off nationwide, author Eric Mann describes the many qualities of a successful grassroots organizer. He draws from decades of work in the Congress of Racial Equality, worker organizing and most recently, the Labor Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles. I've been following Mann's writing and work for decades and didn't know what to expect with this book. Handbooks on Community Organizing can be really long on pontification and dogmatism, and short on practical insight. Playbook offers sharp, challenging arguments grounded in anti-racist, anti-imperialist politics. But what makes this book unique are the ways in which he brings some of the less tangible aspects of organizing to life. There's plenty of strategy, but one also comes away with a sense of the joy a lifetime of organizing can also create. He also very respectfully weaves in the stories of people he has worked with along the way. Highly recommended as we ask what comes next after the Occupations.
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Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty (Teaching for Social Justice) by Willie Baptist
jamestracysf, January 27, 2012
Willie Baptist has been fighting for the bottom rung of the 99% for all of his life. Now this veteran organizer has a book so the rest of us can learn from his experiences. Highly recommended.Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer by Eric Mann
jamestracysf, November 5, 2011
Playbook for Progressives couldn't have come at a better time. Published just as the Occupy Wall Street movement franchise took off nationwide, author Eric Mann describes the many qualities of a successful grassroots organizer. He draws from decades of work in the Congress of Racial Equality, worker organizing and most recently, the Labor Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles. I've been following Mann's writing and work for decades and didn't know what to expect with this book. Handbooks on Community Organizing can be really long on pontification and dogmatism, and short on practical insight. Playbook offers sharp, challenging arguments grounded in anti-racist, anti-imperialist politics. But what makes this book unique are the ways in which he brings some of the less tangible aspects of organizing to life. There's plenty of strategy, but one also comes away with a sense of the joy a lifetime of organizing can also create. He also very respectfully weaves in the stories of people he has worked with along the way. Highly recommended as we ask what comes next after the Occupations.Growing Up Free in America by Bruce Jackson
jamestracysf, November 22, 2010
Bruce Jackson takes the rage and love of James Baldwin and condenses it into the form of Richard Brautigan.Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher Cook
jamestracysf, November 20, 2010
Before "In Defense of Food" Cook was out in front of the Food Security movement. Best read alongside Raj Patel's "Stuffed and Starved".(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher Cook
jamestracysf, November 20, 2010
Before "In Defense of Food" Cook was out in front of the Food Security movement. Best read alongside Raj Patel's "Stuffed and Starved".(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
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