Making Policy, Making Change: How Communities Are Taking Law into Their Own Hands

Themba, Makani N.

ISBN 10: 1890759074 / ISBN 13: 9781890759070

Published by Oakland, California, U.S.A.: Chardon Pr, 1999

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Trade paperback in fine condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Policy, Making Change: How Communities Are Taking Law into Their Own Hands
• Publisher: Oakland, California, U.S.A.: Chardon Pr
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890759074
• ISBN 13: 9781890759070
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • politics

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Synopsis

Learn how activists are making change and getting it in writing. More than 1,000 local policies have been enacted recently, ranging from limiting the number of liquor stores and alcohol and tobacco billboards in low-income communities to ordinances on corporate accountability. Find out how you, too, can create change from the ground up.

About the Author

Makani N. Themba, a longtime community organizer, has worked extensively in the area of media and social change, including stints as Media Director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference/Los Angeles and Director of the Center for Media & Policy Analysis of the Marin Institute. She has trained hundreds of community coalitions on effective media and policy advocacy. Themba currently directs the Applied Research Center's Grassroots Innovative Policy Program (GRIPP).