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uisge_beatha's review
5.0
Essential reading for anyone interesting in practicing the craft of grassroots organizing.
dtpsweeney's review
4.0
An informative, detailed, expansive guide to the Midwest Academy’s long successful style of community organizing. This guidebook really gets into the meat and potatoes. I read this guidebook piece by piece over a long period of time and tested a lot of these strategies and techniques in my own organizing as I went along. I think I’ll be revisiting this book often in years to come, too. It’s honestly a very helpful tool.
I think there are limitations to the Midwest school’s approach when it comes to changing power relations, so I have some lingering questions, but the information here is not focused on theory of change so much as a practice of change. It is thorough and, best of all, useful. Applicable. This stands in contrast with many other organizing treatises I have read that entrancingly dwell in the conceptual without giving you concrete skills. Bravo and thank you for that!
I think there are limitations to the Midwest school’s approach when it comes to changing power relations, so I have some lingering questions, but the information here is not focused on theory of change so much as a practice of change. It is thorough and, best of all, useful. Applicable. This stands in contrast with many other organizing treatises I have read that entrancingly dwell in the conceptual without giving you concrete skills. Bravo and thank you for that!
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