Toward a Living Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Living Revolution write by George Lakey. This book was released on 2016-03-03. Toward a Living Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Arab Awakening and other nonviolent insurrections have often failed to produce lasting democratic change. A believer in empowerment, Lakey proposes a stage-by-stage developmental framework to get better, more transformational results. Still incorporating the nonviolent coercive force that has brought down dictators, Lakey uses historical “best practices” from movements to show how people can grow a revolution that roots itself even while it confronts. The five stages begin with consciousness change, lifting an intersectional vision that inspires and provides the basis for a critical mass to join the movement as it pushes through each developmental stage. Lakey shows how to reconcile pre-figurative alternative institutions with confrontive direct action teams, making the most of inherent synergistic potentials. With actual stories from confrontation with violent authorities he describes what works best for unifying and building the movement to the point where it can carry out the mass noncooperation that opens a power vacuum. Earlier democratic organizing structures—growing as the strategy unfolds—can then fill the vacuum. This stage prevents a relapse into the old oppression and defends the new society against counterrevolutionary forces. Although focused on how each society can realize its own revolution, this book acknowledges the context of global power and proposes a vision for transformed world institutions that are on the side of peace and justice. The principles in the book have particular application in the climate crisis humanity now faces, which is why the book describes a living revolution.
Living the Revolution
Living the Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living the Revolution write by Jennifer Guglielmo. This book was released on 2010-05-03. Living the Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. She also shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became white working-class Americans.
Living Room Revolution
Living Room Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Room Revolution write by Cecile Andrews. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Living Room Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of The Circle of Simplicity “joyfully invites us to discover a robust and real personal expansion with each other as we remake our society” (Mark Lakeman, cofounder, The City Repair Project). Every man for himself! For too long we have lived in a competitive, consumer-oriented culture, destroying the well-being of people and the planet. We believe that money brings happiness, yet all too often, the opposite is true. The pursuit of wealth at any cost corrupts our values and diminishes our lives. The resulting inequality breaks down social cohesion and generates envy, bitterness, and resentment. Greed breeds more greed. Living Room Revolution refutes the notion that selfishness is at the root of human nature. Research shows that people—given the right circumstances—can be caring, nurturing and collaborative. Presented with the opportunity, they gravitate toward actions and policies embodying empathy, fairness, and trust instead of competition, fear, and greed. The regeneration of social ties and the sense of caring and purpose that comes from creating community drive this essential transformation. At the heart of this movement is the ancient art of conversation. Living Room Revolution provides a practical toolkit of concrete strategies to facilitate personal and social change by bringing people together in community and conversation. The heart of happiness is joining with others in good talk and laughter. Each person can make a difference, and it can all start in your own living room! “Small groups. Study circles. Stop ’n chats. House parties. Movie nights. Online sharing. Bring people together, and you never know what kind of fuse you’ll ignite for change.” —Wanda Urbanska, author of The Heart of Simple Living
The Movement Toward a New America
The Movement Toward a New America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Movement Toward a New America write by Mitchell Goodman. This book was released on 1971. The Movement Toward a New America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Resource Manual for a Living Revolution
Resource Manual for a Living Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resource Manual for a Living Revolution write by Virginia Coover. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Resource Manual for a Living Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers group dynamics, strategy planning, meetings, group decision making, conflict resolution, personal growth, community support, and training and organizing skills for those seeking nonviolent social change
