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Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

Urban decay can sap the determinationâ€”not to mention the soulâ€”of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators. They are groups of citizens, encouraged and trained to take power with dignity and creativity and unrelenting determination, and to make it work for them, day by day, month by month, and year to year.

For more than twenty-five years, Michael Gecan has been a professional organizer with Industrial Areas Foundation, which has trained thousands of little-known community groups from Brownsville, Texas, to Brownsville, Brooklyn. Having grown up witnessing at close range the destructive effects of political patronage on powerless, disenfranchised Chicago communities, Gecan knows from experience that strong relationships in the public sphere and sustained and disciplined organizing can spark the public and private alchemy necessary to achieve sidewalks, parks, schools, housing--and the collective renewal that results.

Full of good advice and entertaining accounts of success, Going Public is the story of those who, says Gecan, â€œsucceed in unexpected ways and in unexpected places.â€
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 388694
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2004-05-18
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781400076499

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