Organizing for Power and Empowerment

The second edition of this book is very timely. The authors have reintroduced their work into national debates at a time when news media and public discourse are questioning antitrust or monopoly issues, workers are engaging in collective bargaining and striking, and divestment groups are striving to protect the future by protesting oil pipelines. Power-and who has it-sits at the heart of these issues. -- Terri Friedline, author of <i>Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial Technology Won't Save a Broken System</i> This book is an urgently needed account of how organizing reclaims the ability of ordinary people to act together to realize a shared vision of a more just world. Learning how these organizations make real the most fundamental promises of democracy is more needed than ever before. -- Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University Mondros and Minieri break important new ground in this timely second edition, examining the evolution of progressive social action organizing over the past twenty-five years. They broaden, deepen and strengthen the original analysis with special focus on intersectional injustice, expanded corporate power, inequality, and a multiracial, feminist framework for organizing. -- Lee Staples, Boston University The organizing work profiled in this book represents our best hope at defeating the rising tides of racial intolerance and corporate malfeasance. Filled with lessons learned from organizing in cities, towns, and suburbs across the United States, Organizing for Power and Empowerment offers a roadmap out of the isolation and marginalization so many individuals face toward collective racial, gender, and economic transformation. -- Zach Norris, author <i>Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment</i>