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Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,823 ratings — published 1971
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.05 — 156 ratings — published 2003
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 9 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,316 ratings — published 2017
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.14 — 261 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 4.62 — 6,179 ratings — published 2021
Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.74 — 154 ratings — published 1960
Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.13 — 145 ratings — published 2003
Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.84 — 257 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 — 2,401 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 — 137 ratings — published 2006
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.97 — 95 ratings — published 2001
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.85 — 454 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,711 ratings — published 2020
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,312 ratings — published 2018
Fundraising for Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.02 — 221 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 — 2,486 ratings — published 2007
Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (Kim Klein's Fundraising Series)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.42 — 43 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 — 66,106 ratings — published 2020
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,642 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 — 324 ratings — published 2014
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,488 ratings — published 2016
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.11 — 327 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 — 3,673 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 — 273,702 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 — 233,221 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 3.90 — 70 ratings — published 2003
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.71 — 80 ratings — published
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,135 ratings — published 2023
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,433 ratings — published 2023
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,609 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 — 37,581 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 — 2,179 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 4.38 — 16 ratings — published
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,378 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 4.16 — 31 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 — 10,131 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 3.98 — 225 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 — 70 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 — 893 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 4.33 — 118 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 4.19 — 70 ratings — published
Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.19 — 107 ratings — published 2016
Rise Up! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.04 — 115 ratings — published
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.60 — 548 ratings — published
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-organizing)
avg rating 4.25 — 130 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
“The seven core members also became more involved in local Minneapolis politics. Drawing attention at a national level had been the driving impetus of the earlier Black Lives Matter protests, which had relied on getting that hashtag to spike. Now it was clear that if their focal point was police funding, it would need to be a local effort, dependent on a partnership with the city council and the mayor's office, where these budgetary decisions were made. They would need to learn the mechanics and make some allies.
This was organizing as it had long been done, and they got good at it. It was also, in a way, what separated Minneapolis from Cairo. Whereas the Middle East lacked a democratic or grassroots political tradition-and had no way to even imagining how to create one-this wasn't the case in America....But there was a long history of African American organizing that predated Silicon Galley. Miski and their friends got to know city council members and their aides, inundated them with research material, visited their offices, and maybe most important, brought people out to hearings when the budget was being discussed, arguing in forum after forum against the belief that all the police needed were a few more bodycams. All this happened without much fanfare and largely off-line.”
― The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
This was organizing as it had long been done, and they got good at it. It was also, in a way, what separated Minneapolis from Cairo. Whereas the Middle East lacked a democratic or grassroots political tradition-and had no way to even imagining how to create one-this wasn't the case in America....But there was a long history of African American organizing that predated Silicon Galley. Miski and their friends got to know city council members and their aides, inundated them with research material, visited their offices, and maybe most important, brought people out to hearings when the budget was being discussed, arguing in forum after forum against the belief that all the police needed were a few more bodycams. All this happened without much fanfare and largely off-line.”
― The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas