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Title:
The people shall rule : ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice / Robert Fisher, editor.
Publisher:
Vanderbilt University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
x, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
ACORN (Organization)
Community organization--United States.
Community development, Urban--United States.
Other Authors:
Fisher, Robert, 1947-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Community organizing, ACORN, and progressive politics in America / Peter Dreier -- Understanding ACORN : sweat and social change / Wade Rathke -- Education as a field for community organizing : a comparative perspective / Elaine Simon and Eva Gold -- From redlining to reinvestment : economic justice advocacy, ACORN, and the emergence of a community reinvestment infrastructure / Gregory D. Squires and Jan Chadwick -- Community organizing theory and practice : conservative trends, oppositional alternatives / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, and Eric Shragge -- ACORN and the living wage movement / Stephanie Luce -- The battle of Brooklyn : ACORN's modus operandi / John Atlas -- Community resistance to school privatization : the case of New York City / Janelle Scott and Norm Fruchter -- "Don't be a blockhead" : ACORN, protest tactics, and organizational scale / Robert Fisher, Fred Brooks, and Daniel Russell -- ACORN experiments in minority voter mobilization / Donald Green and Melissa R. Michelson -- Does ACORN's work contribute to movement building? / Gary Delgado -- Changing direction : ACORN and the future of community organizing / Robert Fisher.
ISBN:
0826516572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826516572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826516564 (alk. paper)
9780826516565 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)254526547
LCCN:
2008039357
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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