Calling All Radicals How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy
, by Thompson, GabrielNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781568583679 | 1568583672
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/28/2007
Forty-seven million Americans without healthcare. Soaring economic inequality. Environmental racism. Slumlords and sweatshop owners. Every year, students leave high school and college eager to tackle the crises facing the United States. But how, exactly, does one go about building social justice movements and strengthening our democracy? Calling All Radicals argues that we can reclaim our democracy in the old fashioned way-through grassroots organizing. Beyond campaign sound bytes and the occasional election, democracy is about focusing on the development of leaders, taking collective action, and building power among groups usually ignored and abused. In essence, organizers are democracy "scouts" who recruit formerly inactive, sometimes cynical people to play their part in our unfolding democratic experiment.