Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing - Hardcover

Staples, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275969975 ISBN 13: 9780275969974

Publisher: Praeger, 2004

Synopsis

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.

The author brings more than three decades of experience to the task of explaining root principles for developing and exercising collective power; he moves effortlessly from such broad discussions into providing specific tips for effective organizing methods and techniques. Armed with the information in this book, any community can bring about social change through collective action.

About this title

About the Author

LEE STAPLES is Clinical Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. He has been engaged in grassroots community organizing since the late 1960s as an organizer, supervisor, staff director, trainer, educator, consultant, evaluator, and coach. He remains actively involved in a diverse range of organizing efforts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0275969975
• ISBN 13: 9780275969974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 392