A chapter devoted to the analysis of issues, the systems which determine their resolution, and their role in the political campaign, serves to enlighten and motivate the ideal lead-in to an exhaustive section on training.
A concise summary integrates the hypotheses set forth about the role of grassroots politics in American social development. And in a unique and compelling twist, that model is then compared to the individual's development as a person. Written by psychoanalyst, political activist and scholar Dr. The appendix is remarkable for its richly annotated bibliography and a revealing chronicle of the events and issues of American grassroots movements. In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan?
Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of others are not ready to give up on democracy just yet. Working outside the notice of the national media, ordinary citizens across the nation are meeting in living rooms, church basements, synagogues, and schools to identify shared concerns, select and cultivate leaders, and take action. Stout tells vivid stories of people fighting entrenched economic and political interests around the country.
From parents and teachers striving to overcome gang violence in South Central Los Angeles, to a Latino priest north of the Rio Grande who brings his parish into a citizens' organization, to the New Orleans residents who get out the vote by taking a jazz band through streets devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Stout describes how these ordinary people conceive of citizenship, how they acquire and exercise power, and how religious ideas and institutions contribute to their successes.
The most important book on organizing and grassroots democracy in a generation, Blessed Are the Organized is a passionate and hopeful account of how our endangered democratic principles can be put into action. Touching on topics both current and diverse, Ehrenhalt shows that we not only have the government we deserve, but that that government is us: a mirror of ourselves, with all the requisite strengths and weaknesses.
Grouped into sections and woven together with an overall Introduction and short section introductions, the essays touch on topics such as leadership and legitimate authority in politics, the movement to devolve government power down to the state and local level, and the obsession with rooting out corruption. In one section, the author dissects the fallacies of the "reinventing government" movement and explains why it has not produced the results once promised.
In another, he writes about the painful efforts to define and recreate "community" in localities all over America, after the fragmentation of social and political lives over the past generation. An insightful observer and writer on state and local matters, Alan Ehrenhalt is Executive Editor of Governing, a monthly magazine on state and local government and politics.
Grassroots Development Grassroots Development Would you like to do your part in saving America? A critical read. And she ends with a cautionary note: if you don't defend your freedom, it can be whisked away by a reactionary regime intent on imposing their morality on the multitudes.
Grass Roots. Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana In the last nine years, eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana.
Joshua Clark Davis, E mily D ufton. In the growing historical literature on the War on Drugs in the United States, scholars have mostly investigated law enforcement efforts to combat opiates and cocaine, as seen in works by Eric C.
Schneider, Kathleen J. Frydl, David T. Courtwright, and Donna Murch. Marijuana, by contrast, has received much less attention from historians, even though it is the most widely consumed illicit substance in the country. But second, and perhaps most importantly, Dufton employs a fresh approach to understanding the Most users should sign in with their email address. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in.
To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. Don't already have an Oxford Academic account? Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. The best-kept secret in the world today is that the solution to the global climate emergency and related crises lies right beneath our feet and at the end of our forks and knives. The book is based on the premise that business as usual-profligate fossil fuel use; degenerative food, farming, and land use; hyper-consumerism; and the status-quo focus of the US and global elite-can and must be reversed over the next decade and beyond.
The economic system of late-stage capitalism and the biological carrying capacity of the planet have reached points of implosion. Unfettered greenhouse gas emissions have brought us to the brink of runaway climate catastrophe, while out-of-control corporate greed, militarism, and elite rule have devastated public health, the environment, and the "natural capital" and democratic ethos that sustain the global economy and political system.
To survive and thrive in catastrophic times, Grassroots Rising calls for building a world-changing, grassroots Regeneration Movement, one based on consumer awareness, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance, embodied most recently by the proposed Green New Deal in the US.
This Regeneration Movement will enable us to not only mitigate and slow down climate change, but actually reverse global warming by regenerating our soils and our food system and converting to renewable energy. With these methods, we will be able to address and resolve the interrelated crises of environmental destruction, deteriorating public health, rural poverty, endless war, and political degeneration. Regenerative food, farming, and land use can provide a new outlook on life, a therapeutic vision and daily practice that demonstrates that we the people, the global grassroots, can begin to turn away from disaster, solve our most pressing crises, and meet our most important needs"
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