How We Win (eBook, ePUB)

Energizing Strategies, Voters, and Agendas
Redaktion: Derber, Charles; Treviño, Nancy; Nelson, Matt; Moodliar, Suren

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uniquely demonstrates how a new combination of communities, progressive visions, and strategies provide a path to defeat fascist machinations and strengthen social justice movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040226094
• Artikelnr.: 72271085

Autorenporträt

Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College, USA. A lifelong social justice activist, his work focuses on the crises of capitalism, globalization, corporate power, militarism, the culture of hegemony, the climate crisis, and peace and global justice movements. His recent books include Turnout!: Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (Routledge, 2020), Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can About It (Routledge, 2023), and Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America (Routledge, 2024) Suren Moodliar is an organizer, writer and journal editor. He co-leads encuentro5, a Boston-based movement-building center. His most recent book is Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It (Routledge, 2023). Matt Nelson is executive director of Presente.org, an advocacy group which advances Latinx power and amplifies Latinx voices. Before his work at Presente.org, he was the Organizing Director at Color of Change. Matt is a seasoned campaign strategist who has won dozens of local and national campaigns, and a skilled community organizer who has trained thousands of activists. He is the co-editor of Turnout!: Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (Routledge, 2020) and was featured in Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion (2015). Nancy Treviño is director of power at Presente.org., a community organizer, trainer, and campaign strategist. Previously, Nancy worked alongside dozens of grassroots community organizations across the U.S., collaborated with national and international human rights organizations, and continues to provide strategic organizing, digital, and communications support to advance social justice movements.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. At the Crossroads, Again: Embracing Organizing, Social
Movements, and Transformational Change Part I: Voices & Visions,
Communities & Key Issues 2. To Save Organized Human Society 3. Mobilizing
in Times of Emergency 4. How We Win for Women 5. The Fascist Threat and the
Progressive Agenda 6. Political Violence - Old and New, Neither Acceptable
7. The Dystopian Vision of Project 2025 8. Billionaires vs. Your Vote 9.
The Human Right to Housing 10. Holding the Fort, Birthing a New World - or
Why Labor Unions Matter 11. A Union for All Workers 12. Flow of Resistance:
The Power of Border Communities Shaping America's Future 13. Saving the
Dead, Making the Future: Public History Against Fascism Intermission (Take
Action!) 14. Values, Villain, Vision: Messaging to Mobilize Our Base and
Persuade the Conflicted 15. Letter to College Students 16. Nuts and Bolts:
Registering, Voting, Mobilizing Your Community Part II: The Power of the
Electorate - Working with Voters 17. Turning Out Young Voters of Color by
Focusing on Their Priority Issue: The Rising Cost of Living 18. Turning Out
Our Peers 19. 1964's Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights
Work We Need to Do 20. Mobilizing with Elder Voters 21. Restoring Democracy
through Our Public Schools 22. Working with Labor Movement Voters 23. All
Politics is Local: Reflections from the Frontlines of a Progressive
Electoral Movement 24. Protecting Voter Rights