Playbook for Progressives

For decades, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has been acknowledged as the leading book in the field of organizing. But Playbook for Progressives proposes a more fundamental and long-term challenge, while articulating pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of an organizer. Here, Eric Mann distills the lessons learned from his forty-five years as an organizer--from the Congress of Racial Equality and Students for...
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For decades, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has been acknowledged as the leading book in the field of organizing. But Playbook for Progressives proposes a more fundamental and long-term challenge, while articulating pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of an organizer. Here, Eric Mann distills the lessons learned from his forty-five years as an organizer--from the Congress of Racial Equality and Students for a Democratic Society to the United Auto Workers and Los Angeles-based Labor/Community Strategy Center, where he's currently the director--as well asfrom other organizers within the civil rights, labor, LGBT, economic justice, and environmental movements.