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Intermediary NGOs: The Supporting Link in Grassroots Development » Read Now
by Thomas F. Carroll. 274 pgs.

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...had centered on local or grassroots groups and how they related...civic mobilization and social activism in Latin America Hirschman...organizations involved in social...
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Don't Burn It Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators » Read Now
by Edward J. Walsh, Rex Warland, D. Clayton Smith. 292 pgs.

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An investigation of conflicts surrounding eight proposed U.S. trash incinerator projects.
When first proposed in this country during the 1970s, waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be ideal solutions to the growing mounds of trash in our "throw-away" society. Promising to convert useless...
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An investigation of conflicts surrounding eight proposed U.S. trash incinerator projects.
When first proposed in this country during the 1970s, waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be ideal solutions to the growing mounds of trash in our "throw-away" society. Promising to convert useless garbage into electricity while saving precious landfill space, trash incinerators seemed perfectly timed to respond to a national need. Within a decade, however, a grassroots anti-incineration movement emerged as a vibrant offshoot of the environmental movement. In Don't Burn It Here, sociologists Edward Walsh, Rex Warland, and D. Clayton Smith examine this grassroots movement through detailed analyses of the struggles surrounding proposals to build eight municipal incinerators in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.
The eight case histories that form the heart of the book are comparable to hundreds of others across the U.S. The authors' research is based on interviews, focus group discussions, extensive newspaper files, and questionnaire responses from participants on both sides of the conflicts. A final chapter examines the similarities and differences between the three successful projects and the five defeated ones. An overview of the history of the modern incinerator in the U.S. and the emergence of a major national opposition movement provides the necessary context, and throughout the book, the authors make useful comparisons to other national movements s
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Grassroots Politicians: Party Activists in British Columbia » Read Now
by Donald E. Blake, R. K. Carty, Lynda K. Erickson. 158 pgs.

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...parties? Do they have long histories of activism or fleeting commitments? Second, to...down-to-earth thinking 61.0 11.0 Grassroots could solve problems better...
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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots » Read Now
by Robert D. Bullard, Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. 259 pgs.

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...fairness, and equity. Grassroots groups challenge...that environmental activism was solely the...of environmental activism in African-American...conservation directories...
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Women for a Change: A Grassroots Guide to Activism and Politics » Read Now
by Thalia Zepatos, Elizabeth Kaufman. 280 pgs.

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This is a handbook for women who want to increase their political involvement at any level. There are interviews with women who have already done so in this guide from 2 political veterans.
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Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze ("Professional--Grassroots" begins on p. 48) » Read Now
by Robert Kleidman. 266 pgs.

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Organizing for Peace skillfully compares and analyzes the three major campaigns of the peace movement in the United States since World War I - the Emergency Peace Campaign (1936-1937), the Atomic Test Ban Campaign (1957-1963), and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (1979-1986). Kleidman shows how...
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Organizing for Peace skillfully compares and analyzes the three major campaigns of the peace movement in the United States since World War I - the Emergency Peace Campaign (1936-1937), the Atomic Test Ban Campaign (1957-1963), and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (1979-1986). Kleidman shows how the campaigns organizational dynamics shaped their rise, course, fall, and impact both on public policy and on the peace movement itself. But as Kleidman points out, the three groups failed despite widespread mobilization and intense activism. Combining careful historical research with insights from contemporary social movement theory, this book sheds new light on the campaigns and the peace movement, as well as on key aspects of social movement organizations, cycles, and trends. Particularly valuable for policy and analysis is Kleidman's framework of organizational tensions. Social scientists and historians, particularly students and scholars of social movements and peace movements, will value the policy implications and analytical rigor of this book.
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Development and Dignity: Grassroots Development and the Inter-American Foundation » Read Now
by Patrick Breslin. 102 pgs.

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...DEVELOPMENT AND DIGNITY Grassroots Development and the Inter American...lays out the Foundations rationale for grassroots projects, I was struck by the Appendix...change in...
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A Citizen's Guide to Politics in America: How the System Works and How to Work the System (Chap. 10 "Grassroots Mobilization") » Read Now
by Barry R. Rubin. 288 pgs.

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This book takes the reader through the process of successful action for change, from the germ of an idea to finding supporters, getting the word out, and building the critical mass of people, energy, and support to effect the desired result.
Anyone who wants to influence policy -- whether of a...
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This book takes the reader through the process of successful action for change, from the germ of an idea to finding supporters, getting the word out, and building the critical mass of people, energy, and support to effect the desired result.
Anyone who wants to influence policy -- whether of a corporation, an institution, or government at any level -- will find the tools they need to become an effective issue advocate, and not just another frustrated citizen.
Filled with abundant practical examples and guidelines for success, the book covers such topics as:
-- how public policy issues become ripe for action;
-- how interest groups influence the issue agenda;
-- how lobbying can shape political decisions;
-- how to mobilize grassroots support;
-- how coalitions are formed;
-- how to organize an initiative or referendum.
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Nongovernments: NGOs and the Political Development of the Third World (Includes discussion of grassroots activism in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Julie Fisher. 237 pgs.

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...private research centers are involved in grassroots research and support, they often become...in American and Asian Environmental Activism, Asia Society, New York, April...
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Party Organization and Activism in the American South (Includes discussion of grassroots activism in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Robert P. Steed, John A. Clark, Lewis Bowman, Charles D. Hadley. 268 pgs.

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...possibility of revitalization of grassroots party activism. To look into this proposition...majority are reports of grassroots activism in a specific locale...
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Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below (Includes discussion of grassroots activism in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Lynn Stephen. 332 pgs.

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Women' grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women' subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women' concerns about...
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Women' grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women' subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women' concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women' grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods.
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Community Economic Development as Progressive Politics: Toward a Grassroots Movement for Economic Justice, in Stanford Law Review » Read Now
by Scott L. Cummings. 95 pgs.

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...model also seeks to energize grassroots political activism. By offering a forum for...while planting the seeds of grassroots activism. (386) CED lawyers can...integrates...
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Grassroots Involvement, in American Journal of Community Psychology » Read Now
by Gillian Kaye. 7 pgs.

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...Grassroots involvement. by Gillian Kaye Gillian Kaye...initiated by funders are still often bereft of meaningful grassroots leadership and involvement. One might say, its...
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Grassroots Mobilizations in the Southwest for Environmental and Economic Justice, in International Journal of Public Administration » Read Now
by Teresa Cordova. 17 pgs.

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...and Economic Justice Activism Activities of the...Organizing Project exemplify grassroots responses to the inequality...following points about grassroots participation...
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Organizing for Change: Women's Grassroots Activism in Japan, in Feminist Studies » Read Now
by Diana Khor. 29 pgs.

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...CHANGE: WOMENS GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM IN JAPAN...underlying such activism, and the transformational...that include grassroots organizations...might lead to an activism that is...
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The International History of Grassroots Associations, in International Journal of Comparative Sociology » Read Now
by David Horton Smith. 28 pgs.

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...The international history of grassroots associations. by David Horton...research literature dealing with Grassroots Associations (GAs) through human...societies all over...