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Books & Manuals

  • Mar 2010

    RE:Imagining Change bookRe:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change makers.

  • Dec 2006

    A Training for Change & Ruckus Society collaboration: a manual for the counter-recruitment movement. This 239-page training manual is chocked full of tools, handouts and articles on what is the poverty draft, how a recruiter gets your number, organizing skills, how to build a campaign, media & messaging, and more. This manual includes group dynamics exericses, strategy tools, and many more that can be useful to other movements, too.

  • Sep 2006

    At last, for directors, board members, staffers and volunteers -- a guide for improving nonprofit groups! This book weaves together theory, experience and context to help leaders deal creatively with the full range of organizational issues. This practical toolkit will help you build diversity, turn your board into a more valuable resource, improve morale, supervise more effectively, banish boring meetings, handle conflict better and much more. (available online)

  • Dec 2005

    Hundreds of training activities in detail, over 60 handouts with the content of how to defend human rights against violence, an integrated 23-day curriculum, many tips for trainers, and mini-essays on pedagogical theory -- all of this is included in the 634-page manual available from Training for Change (TFC).

  • Dec 2005

    When state-sponsored violence meets nonviolent people power, which one wins? As George Lakey shows in this passionate and well researched piece, it's nonviolence that tends to win hands down. Originally written as a rebuttal to the Ward Churchill screed "Pacifism as Pathology," this booklet is filled with recent real-world examples of nonviolent victories.

  • Jul 2005

    A book for middle-class and owning-class activists who need a hand to understand class. Reviewer Betsy Raasch-Gilman writes, "This book is, quite simply, a 'must-read' for middle-class and owning-class activists!... the author has done an excellent job of avoiding shame and blame, and yet the subject is unavoidably challenging and painful."

  • Aug 2004

    George Lakey's article Strategizing for a Living Revolution adds a hopeful yet down-to-earth perspective in the new book just published by City Lights: Globalize Liberation, edited by David Solnit.

  • Jan 2004

    The Spiritual Activist is a practical guide to individual and social transformation. It will help you create opportunities to slow down, build stronger relationships at home and at work, and embrace the world around you.

  • Sep 2003

    This book offers a theoretial model for ensuring that social movements are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health and globalization movements.

  • Aug 2003

    The Activist Dialogue facilitated intergenerational dialogue across gaps in the activist community. Read this manual to learn what works when leading dialogue across huge gaps.

    Education through dialogue continues to be an effective and empowering technique, judging from this project. It was needed because the bruises sustained by the Philadelphia area during the Republican National Convention hadn't healed; instead, the gap between the generations threatened to become permanent. There was a further gap between campus-based activists and non-college activist youths.

  • Aug 2000

    This practical book will help you break away from old leadership forms and head toward empowering change. The book breaks leadership functions down into their component parts, listing separate task and morale functions that good leaders usually perform. It then provides a framework for people who seek to do their work in new ways.


 

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