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Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,690 ratings — published 1971
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.05 — 155 ratings — published 2003
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 9 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,078 ratings — published 2017
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.14 — 262 ratings — published 1991
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,048 ratings — published 2021
Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.76 — 152 ratings — published 1960
Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 143 ratings — published 2003
Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.83 — 254 ratings — published 2002
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,376 ratings — published 2018
Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.88 — 136 ratings — published 2006
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.98 — 94 ratings — published 2001
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.84 — 451 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,685 ratings — published 2020
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,182 ratings — published 2018
Fundraising for Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.02 — 219 ratings — published 1995
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,460 ratings — published 2007
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,322 ratings — published 2020
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,459 ratings — published 2018
Take Back the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.12 — 58 ratings — published 2008
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.98 — 316 ratings — published 2014
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,414 ratings — published 2016
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 323 ratings — published 2012
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,576 ratings — published 2016
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,510 ratings — published 1980
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,769 ratings — published 1995
Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.11 — 175 ratings — published 2013
Transforming Power: Biblical Strategies for Making a Difference in Your Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.88 — 69 ratings — published 2003
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.74 — 77 ratings — published
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,856 ratings — published 2023
Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (Kim Klein's Fundraising Series)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.42 — 43 ratings — published 2007
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.51 — 3,169 ratings — published 2023
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,165 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,502 ratings — published 2015
Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.65 — 17 ratings — published 2011
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,154 ratings — published 2014
People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2015
Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.33 — 15 ratings — published
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,324 ratings — published 2015
Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.19 — 32 ratings — published 2010
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.98 — 10,045 ratings — published 2008
Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.01 — 218 ratings — published 2015
Radical social work in practice: Making a difference (Social Work in Practice Series)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published 2009
The Road Not Taken (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.86 — 69 ratings — published 2001
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.48 — 888 ratings — published 2015
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.32 — 114 ratings — published 2014
No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.22 — 67 ratings — published
Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.19 — 106 ratings — published 2016
Rise Up! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.05 — 110 ratings — published
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.61 — 527 ratings — published
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.25 — 124 ratings — published 2018
“Phillip. the Dream Defenders founder, had a similar insight. For him, the experience of the Blackout had been a lesson in the varieties of power. Borrowing a concept from Joseph Nye, the political scientist, he now came to understand social media as a form of 'soft power,' a force that shapes culture through argument and story. But there was also 'hard power,' which Nye, in assessing the capacity of different nation-states, characterized as military and economic might. For movements, hard power was the ability to lobby for legislation, elect sympathetic political leaders, get resources allocated toward your cause. Social media, Phillip now saw more clearly, was good at building soft power. But when it came to hard power, it could do very little. And if for Nye every successful state needed a mix of the two, this was doubly true of social movements, which didn't stare with a store of either.
The only way to built hard power was on the ground. As Rachel put it, 'You just can't shortcut organizing.' It made them want to stop the performance, the race for followers, even the reflex to always make their actions public-they would think carefully about if and when to use tactics like occupations and sit-ins.”
― The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
The only way to built hard power was on the ground. As Rachel put it, 'You just can't shortcut organizing.' It made them want to stop the performance, the race for followers, even the reflex to always make their actions public-they would think carefully about if and when to use tactics like occupations and sit-ins.”
― The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
“If the parents of schoolchildren in an elementary school in Austin worry most about the dangers their children face crossing busy streets near the school, they getting a stop sign installed or a traffic pattern changed will be their first goal. Other aims and actions may follow, once they experience their collective power. "Winning creates imagination," says Sister Judy Donovan, leading organizer of Valley Interfaith. "Once they see they can get a stop sign, they start thinking about what might be done in the school." Successful action gives people lessons in their own power.”
― Better Together
― Better Together
