Going Public An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

Name: Going Public An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action
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ISBN: 9781400076499

ISBN-10: 1400076498

ISBN-13: 9781400076499

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael Gecan

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Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators. They are groups of citizens, encouraged and trained to take power with dignity and creativity and unrelenting determination, and to make it work for them, day by day, month by month, and year to year. For more than twenty-five years, Michael Gecan has been a professional organizer with Industrial Areas Foundation, which has trained thousands of little-known community groups from Brownsville, Texas, to Brownsville, Brooklyn. Having grown up witnessing at close range the destructive…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.93" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Michael Gecan, a veteran organizer who trained with Saul Alinsky, is an executive member ofthe Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). He has worked in both Chicago and New York City and is theauthor of Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action.