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Author : Chester A. Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Eighty-year Experience of a Grass-roots Citizen written by Chester A. Graham and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Baumgardner
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466814829
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Grassroots written by Jennifer Baumgardner and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-01-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political. Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question: What can I do? Whether you are concerned about the environment, human rights violations in Tibet, campus sexual assault policies, sweatshop labor, gay marriage, or the ongoing repercussions from 9-11, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards believe that we all have something to offer in the fight against injustice. Based on the authors' own experiences, and the stories of both the large number of activists they work with as well as the countless everyday people they have encountered over the years, Grassroots encourages people to move beyond the "generic three" (check writing, calling congresspeople, and volunteering) and make a difference with clear guidelines and models for activism. The authors draw heavily on individual stories as examples, inspiring readers to recognize the tools right in front of them--be it the office copier or the family living room--in order to make change. Activism is accessible to all, and Grassroots shows how anyone, no matter how much or little time they have to offer, can create a world that more clearly reflects their values.
Author : Raymond G. Kuhl
Publisher : Michigan Electric Cooperative Association.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Their Own Power written by Raymond G. Kuhl and published by Michigan Electric Cooperative Association.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peg Eileen Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Jane Farwell written by Peg Eileen Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradford Fitch
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
ISBN 13 : 1587332329
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Citizen's Handbook to Influencing Elected Officials written by Bradford Fitch and published by The Capitol Net Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One part research studies, one part interviews and focus groups, and one part experience, this text provides practical guidance on preparing for and meeting with elected officials and staff, writing effective letters and e-mails to elected officials, and strategies for influencing legislators face to face.
Author : Jan Barry
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813528014
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Campaigns written by Jan Barry and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Barry provides a pragmatic, common-sense handbook to civic action. Using case studies from his home state of New Jersey, Barry has crafted what he calls a "guidebook for creative improvement on the American dream." He dissects civic actions such as environmental campaigns, mutual-help groups, neighborhood improvement projects, and a grassroots peace mission to Russia.
Author : Jeffrey Stout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156654
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Blessed Are the Organized written by Jeffrey Stout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ordinary citizens band together to bring about real change In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of others are not ready to give up on democracy just yet. Working outside the notice of the national media, ordinary citizens across the nation are meeting in living rooms, church basements, synagogues, and schools to identify shared concerns, select and cultivate leaders, and take action. Their goal is to hold big government and big business accountable. In this important new book, Jeffrey Stout bears witness to the successes and failures of progressive grassroots organizing, and the daunting forces now arrayed against it. Stout tells vivid stories of people fighting entrenched economic and political interests around the country. From parents and teachers striving to overcome gang violence in South Central Los Angeles, to a Latino priest north of the Rio Grande who brings his parish into a citizens' organization, to the New Orleans residents who get out the vote by taking a jazz band through streets devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Stout describes how these ordinary people conceive of citizenship, how they acquire and exercise power, and how religious ideas and institutions contribute to their successes. The most important book on organizing and grassroots democracy in a generation, Blessed Are the Organized is a passionate and hopeful account of how our endangered democratic principles can be put into action.
Author : Frank A. Annunziata
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book For the General Welfare written by Frank A. Annunziata and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a festschrift of original essays by former graduate students of Professor Robert H. Bremner at Ohio State Univerity on twentieth century United States history. They reflect the intellectual interests encouraged and guided by Professor Bremner in his years of distinguished teaching, scholarship and service at Ohio State.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Society of American Foresters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's Renewable Resource Potential -- 1975 : the Turning Point written by Society of American Foresters and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Society of American Foresters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings ... National Convention written by Society of American Foresters and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Society of American Foresters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings [of] Meeting written by Society of American Foresters and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Courtney White
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457554313
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Grassroots written by Courtney White and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, news headlines featured political gridlock, anti-government fanaticism, political assaults on environmental regulations, local demands to turn over federal land to the states, ‘patriotic’ armed militia groups, courtroom brawls between activists and rural residents over endangered species, finger-pointing and trash-talking generally. Sound familiar? It’s said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but rhymes instead. Fortunately, if problems are cyclical so are solutions. I’d like to share one that we came up with back then. It’s called the radical center. This is the story of its rise. I’m a former Sierra Club activist who dropped out of the ‘conflict industry’ in 1997 to cofound The Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering common ground between ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, and scientists. Our effort focused on resolving the long-standing feud between ranchers and environmentalists, a hopeless fight that had imperiled the wide open spaces of our beloved West. Our idea was to find a ‘third way’ beyond the polarization in order to implement practical, on-the-ground goals through collaboration, not confrontation. We called it the radical center and defined its mission as “a grassroots coming-together of diverse people to discuss their common interests rather than argue their differences and who agree to work cooperatively on a pragmatic program of action that improves the well-being of all living things.” Included in this book are three columns that I wrote over a period of nearly twenty years: The Uneasy Chair (1995-1997) which was published in the newsletter of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, The Far Horizon (1997-2006) for the newsletter of the Quivira Coalition, and The Next West (2009-2011), which I wrote for my web site. Taken together, I believe they offer a unique look at the times from the perspective of someone on the front lines. ~ Courtney White
Author : James C. Humes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313065748
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book My Fellow Americans written by James C. Humes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-03-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presidency, in Theodore Roosevelt's famous words, is a Bully Pulpit. No one has studied the presidency from this vantage point. This book, in a sense, is a study of American political history seen through the prism of selected presidential addresses. It reveals how presidents used major addresses to create a theme for their administrations, to introduce history-making legislation or programs, or to rally successfully a majority of the nation behind their policies. No other book has examined the major presidential addresses--their construction and their impact--as history. No other book examines, in such detail, the background of the speechwriters who drafted the addresses. James C. Humes, a former White House speechwriter, has a unique understanding of the process of presidential speech-drafting. A single speech can be a defining point in American history, such as the Kennedy inaugural (Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country), or a rallying cry, such as Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural (The only thing we have to fear is fear itself). It can become an American creed as did the Gettysburg Address or a prophecy like the Reagan address to the Houses of Parliament in 1982. Washington's Farewell Address would prescribe our conduct in foreign policy for a century, as did the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. Sometimes the message is a declaration for war, such as Wilson's speech in 1917, or a war against an economic elite like Jackson's Bank veto in 1832 or Cleveland's Tariff message in 1887. This book is of great interest not only to historians and political scientists but also to students of the presidency and government.
Author : Linda Stout
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807043097
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Bridging the Class Divide written by Linda Stout and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Again and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up and lead. It can be done. Linda Stout herself grew up in poverty in rural North Carolina and went on to found one of this country's most successful and innovative grassroots organizations, the Piedmont Peace Project. Working for peace, jobs, health care, and basic social services in North Carolina's conservative Piedmont region, the project has attracted national attention for its success in drawing leadership from within a working-class community, actively encouraging diversity, and empowering people who have never had a voice in policy decisions to speak up for their own interests. The Piedmont Peace Project demonstrates that new ways of organizing can really work. Bridging the Class Divide tells the inspiring story of Linda Stout's life as the daughter of a tenant farmer, as a self-taught activist, and as a leader in the progressive movement. It also gives practical lessons on how to build real working relationships between people of different income levels, races, and genders. This book will inspire and enrich anyone who works for change in our society.
Author : F. Stuart Chapin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190081198
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Grassroots Stewardship written by F. Stuart Chapin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book presents a novel strategy for addressing the major environmental and social problems of our time. It emphasizes transformative actions by individual citizens, both ordinary and extraordinary, rather than by government and other groups. It empowers a spectrum of solutions appropriate to people with varying interests, skills, political persuasions, and level of environmental and social commitment. The book draws on social and ecological theory to formulate a four-tiered stewardship strategy to transform our communities, nations, and planet. Key elements of this strategy are (1) individual actions that link people with nature and reduce human impacts on the planet, (2) effective communication to reduce political polarization and share solutions, (3) collaborations that integrate actions of multiple groups, and (4) political engagement to trigger needed transformations. The book builds on diverse visions and goals for the future of ecosystems and society: concern for the future of our children and grandchildren, a spiritual commitment to care for Creation and vulnerable people, a desire to sustain the best of nature and of cultures, and a concern about the security and well-being of our communities, nations, and the world. This is not a book about what should be done. It is a book about what has been and can be done and a pragmatic strategy for tangible progress"--
Author : Xin Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000721787
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book China's Cultural Diplomacy written by Xin Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines China’s contemporary global cultural footprints through its recent development of cultural diplomacy. The volume presents an alternative analytical framework to examine China’s cultural diplomacy, which goes beyond the Western-defined concept of ‘soft power’ that prevails in the current literature. This new approach constructs a three-dimensional framework on Orientalism, cultural hegemony and nationalism to decipher the multiple contexts, which China inhabits historically, internationally and domestically. The book presents multiple case studies of the Confucius Institute, and compares the global programme located around the world with its Western counterparts, and also with other Chinese government-sponsored endeavours and non-government-initiated programmes. The author aims to solve the puzzle of why China’s efforts in cultural diplomacy are perceived differently around the world and helps to outline the distinctive features of China’s cultural diplomacy. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy, Chinese politics, foreign policy and International Relations in general.
