Grass Roots

Author : Ronnie Cummins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 9781603589758

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Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins Pdf

Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive--and thrive--in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse. This book offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots Regeneration Movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance--embodied most recently by the proposed Green New Deal in the US. Cummins asserts that the solution lies right beneath our feet and at the end of our forks through the transformation of our broken food system. Using regenerative agriculture practices that restore our agricultural and grazing lands, we can sequester massive amounts of carbon in the soil. Coupled with an aggressive transition toward renewables, he argues that we have the power to not only mitigate and slow down climate change, but actually reverse global warming. In synergy with the Sunrise Movement and the growing support of a Green New Deal, Grassroots Rising will impact millions of conscious consumers, farmers, and the general public during the crucial 2020 election year and beyond. This book shows that a properly organized and executed Regeneration Revolution can indeed offer realistic climate solutions while also meeting our everyday needs. If you're wondering what you can do to help address the global climate crisis, joining the Regeneration Revolution might be the best first step. " Grassroots Rising] is a 'good news' instructional book for Regeneration, a practical, shovel-ready plan of action for the United States and the world to transition to climate stability, peace, justice, health, prosperity, cooperation, and participatory democracy." --Ronnie Cummins

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476709536

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Grass Roots by Stuart Woods Pdf

From bestselling author Stuart Woods, a legal thriller featuring attorney Will Lee who travels South to return to his Georgia roots—and gets involved in a political firestorm that could make or break his career. Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. A prominent lawyer, he has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies...and to argue an explosively controversial case that could seriously damage his political career. For Delano is a town with a dark secret—a smoldering hotbed of racial hatred and moral outrage, held in the thrall of a sinister white-supremacist group called The Elect...a breeding ground for violent, evil forces that will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office. At first, Will Lee was running for the Senate. But now he is running for his life.

Author : Donald Iain Ray,Purshottama Sivanarian Reddy
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552380802

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Grassroots Governance? by Donald Iain Ray,Purshottama Sivanarian Reddy Pdf

Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa -- this volume addresses it head-on. Case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica are included. An interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection that addresses this gap in dialogue about African politics. The book brings new perspectives on the integration, or reconciliation, of traditional leadership with democratic systems of local government.

Author : Jennifer Baumgardner,Amy Richards
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466814820

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Grassroots by Jennifer Baumgardner,Amy Richards Pdf

From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political. Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question: What can I do? Whether you are concerned about the environment, human rights violations in Tibet, campus sexual assault policies, sweatshop labor, gay marriage, or the ongoing repercussions from 9-11, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards believe that we all have something to offer in the fight against injustice. Based on the authors' own experiences, and the stories of both the large number of activists they work with as well as the countless everyday people they have encountered over the years, Grassroots encourages people to move beyond the "generic three" (check writing, calling congresspeople, and volunteering) and make a difference with clear guidelines and models for activism. The authors draw heavily on individual stories as examples, inspiring readers to recognize the tools right in front of them--be it the office copier or the family living room--in order to make change. Activism is accessible to all, and Grassroots shows how anyone, no matter how much or little time they have to offer, can create a world that more clearly reflects their values.

Author : Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451903

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Grassroots Memorials by Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero Pdf

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

Author : Heather Robertson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0888620993

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Grass Roots by Heather Robertson Pdf

Heather Robertson's classic account of life and death on the Canadian prairie was praised and reviled with equal vehemence when it first appeared: "a pack of lies" said one reviewer; "dynamite" said another. Both her reporting and analysis are, in fact, explosive. The book offers intimate profiles of four modern prairie towns and of the immense difficulties faced by farmers in Western Canada. It offers sweeping descriptions of the forces that led to the settlement of the West, and examines how those same forces, controlled from eastern Canada, are causing the inexorable decline of many rural communities. Grass Roots is a superb portrait of an imperilled way of life, combining economics, history and politics with a remarkable eye for storytelling.

Author : Nora Gallagher,Lisa Myers
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781938340451

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Patagonia Tools for Grassroots Activists by Nora Gallagher,Lisa Myers Pdf

For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign and communication strategy, grassroots organizing, and lobbying as well as working with business, fundraising in uncertain times and using new technologies. Patagonia hopes the book will be dog-eared and scribbled in; a solid, inspiring guide and reliable companion. The book is organized in two sections: Strategies, and Tools. Each chapter, written by a respected expert in the field, covers essential principals as well as best practices. A hands-on case study accompanies each chapter and demonstrates the principles in action. Sprinkled throughout are inspirational thoughts from acclaimed activists, such as Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Wade Davis, Annie Leonard, and Terry Tempest Williams. An activist's companion in the environmental movement.

Author : Raymond Mason
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228004868

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Spirit of the Grassroots People by Raymond Mason Pdf

Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read, Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles to find meaning in life after trauma and abuse. Mason details the work that he and his colleagues did over many years to gain recognition and compensation for their suffering. Drawing from Indigenous oral traditions as well as Western historiography, the work applies the concept of two-eyed seeing to the histories of colonialism and education in Canada. The memoir is supplemented by a final chapter in which Theodore Michael Christou and Jackson Pind put Mason's story into a historical and educational context. An essential key to understanding the legacy of Indian residential and day schools, this text is both a documentation of history and a deeply personal story of a human experience.

Author : Reynold M. Wik
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472061933

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Henry Ford and Grass-roots America by Reynold M. Wik Pdf

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780889367944

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Grassroots Indicators for Desertification by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suzanne Staggenborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108478489

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Grassroots Environmentalism by Suzanne Staggenborg Pdf

An inside look at how grassroots groups organize and develop strategies over seven years of participant observation in multiple organizations.

Author : Mary G. Rolinson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807872784

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Grassroots Garveyism by Mary G. Rolinson Pdf

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt. Tracing the path of organizers from northern cities to Virginia, and then from the Upper to the Deep South, Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region. Rolinson shows how Garvey's southern constituency sprang from cities, countryside churches, and sharecropper cabins. Southern Garveyites adopted pertinent elements of the movement's ideology and developed strategies for community self-defense and self-determination. These southern African Americans maintained a spiritual attachment to their African identities and developed a fiercely racial nationalism, building on the rhetoric and experiences of black organizers from the nineteenth-century South. Garveyism provided a common bond during the upheaval of the Great Migration, Rolinson contends, and even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, the movement's tenets of race organization, unity, and pride continued to flourish in other forms of black protest for generations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124102257

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The Point Is-- Grassroots Organizing Works by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387350

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The State and the Grassroots by Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernández-Kelly Pdf

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and development debate and discusses the concept of transnationalism as a means of resolving these controversies.

Author : Fred Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009432546

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Grass Roots by Fred Hill Pdf