Grassroots

Author : Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Ronnie Cummins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Donald Iain Ray,Purshottama Sivanarian Reddy
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780889367944

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Grassroots Indicators for Desertification by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124102257

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The Point Is-- Grassroots Organizing Works by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary G. Rolinson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Susan Fawcett,Alvin Sandberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 039588165X

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Grassroots, with Readings by Susan Fawcett,Alvin Sandberg Pdf

[The book] combines in one book the sixth edition of [the authors'] basic writing text Grassroots and 19 high interest reading selections ... [The book] is designed for students who have not yet mastered the basic writing skills so necessary for success in college and in many careers ... Each selection is accompanied by a headnote, vocabulary glosses, comprehension questions and writing assignments ... The range of materials and flexible format of [the book] makes this worktext adaptable to almost any teaching/learning situation: classroom, laboratory and self-teaching.-Pref.

Author : Nia Imani Fields,Timothy J. Shaffer
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781628954647

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Grassroots Engagement and Social Justice through Cooperative Extension by Nia Imani Fields,Timothy J. Shaffer Pdf

Grassroots Engagement and Social Justice through Cooperative Extension grows out of a commitment to the belief that Cooperative Extension professionals can and should be deeply engaged with the communities they work in to improve life—individually and collectively. Rooted in an understanding of the history and development of Extension, the authors focus on contemporary efforts to address systemic inequities. They offer an alternative to the “expert” model that would have Extension educators provide information detached from the difficult and sometimes contentious issues that shape community work. These essays highlight Extension’s role in and responsibility for culturally relevant community education that is rooted in democratic practices and social justice. The ultimate aim of this book is to offer a vision for the future of Extension as its practitioners continue to reach for cultural competence necessary to address issues of systemic injustice in the communities they serve and of which they are a part.

Author : Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
Publisher : International Development Research Centre Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019810618

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Community Power and Grassroots Democracy by Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso Pdf

The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.

Author : Nora Gallagher,Lisa Myers
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Yoshimi Yoshiaki
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231538596

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Grassroots Fascism by Yoshimi Yoshiaki Pdf

Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes diaries, letters, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides penetrating accounts of the war experiences of Japan's minorities and imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. His book challenges the idea that the Japanese people operated as a mere conduit for the military during the war, passively accepting an imperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of wartime Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of "Japanese Fascism." In its relation of World War II to the evolution—and destruction—of empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan Mark's translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory notes and an in-depth introduction that situates the work within Japanese studies and global history.

Author : Augusta Dwyer
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : 1552664066

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Broke But Unbroken by Augusta Dwyer Pdf

In "Broke but Unbroken," journalist Augusta Dwyer takes us on an inspiring journey through the slums and villages of Brazil, Indonesia, India and Argentina as she meets with organizers from some of the most successful grassroots social movements struggling against poverty. These organizers are not representatives from NGOs or aid organizations based in developed nations but the poor themselves people who know intimately the reality of struggling for land, food, housing and the right to control their own resources and means of production. It is these movements, built from the ground up by the very people affected by poverty, that have achieved the most successes in ameliorating the conditions of the poor and providing real solutions to global poverty.As we travel with Dwyer through rural and urban landscapes, too often devastated by the demands of development, we meet people who have risked their homes, families and even their lives to affect real change in the world. The stories they share so openly and warmly are not merely accounts of economic or political success but are stories of empowerment and hope that dramatically portray the potency of collective action.In the beautiful prose of an accomplished writer, this book introduces us to extraordinary grassroots movements and encourages us to learn the lessons they offer about successfully challenging power and changing the world.

Author : Raymond Mason
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Anne Bishop,Henson College of Public Affairs and Continuing Education,Jeanne Fay
Publisher : Point Black, N.S. : Fernwood
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1552661490

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Grassroots Leaders Building Skills : a Course in Community Leadership by Anne Bishop,Henson College of Public Affairs and Continuing Education,Jeanne Fay Pdf

"This course was designed to sharpen social analysis and develop skills in leaders of low-income and marginalized communities in Nova Scotia. Taught by two experienced community workers and funded by two major Canadian foundations, it graduated 50 students over four years. Many joined the program’s advisory committee and helped the course evolve further. Grassroots Leaders Building Skills includes the complete course, with agendas for 25 three-hour sessions, detailed directions for facilitators and spiral-bound handouts for photocopying. Many sessions can stand alone as workshops on topics such as diversity, ideology, community development and building strategies for social change. Plans are included for adapting the sessions to middle class participants, post-secondary classroom settings, or as a series of intensive workshops. Introductory essays explore the theories behind the program and its pedagogy, the logistical organization and the experience of graduates. This powerful course is a valuable resource to anyone teaching social analysis and community organization skills."--pub. desc. "