Roots to power :
Staples, Lee
Roots to power : a manual for grassroots organizing Lee Staples ; foreword by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven - 3rd ed. - Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, c2016. - xxiii, 483 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When ordinary people band together to gain more control over their life conditions, the first order of business is to organize in pursuit of collective action. This how-to manual presents strategies, tactics, methods, and techniques that community members can use to set their own goals, select issues, campaign for these issues, recruit members, develop leaders, hold effective meetings, conduct research, lobby politicians and legislators, and get the word out to the media.
9781440833656
Community organization--United States
Community organization
306.0973
Roots to power : a manual for grassroots organizing Lee Staples ; foreword by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven - 3rd ed. - Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, c2016. - xxiii, 483 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When ordinary people band together to gain more control over their life conditions, the first order of business is to organize in pursuit of collective action. This how-to manual presents strategies, tactics, methods, and techniques that community members can use to set their own goals, select issues, campaign for these issues, recruit members, develop leaders, hold effective meetings, conduct research, lobby politicians and legislators, and get the word out to the media.
9781440833656
Community organization--United States
Community organization
306.0973