Leading a successful grassroots campaign involves organizing people, holding meetings, writing letters, being interviewed, and negotiating with trained professionals and lawyers. You will be advocating in regulatory and political settings that your opponents have mastered.This book helps you navigate these processes, and extracts lessons from hundreds of campaigns where local people like you succeeded in protecting old growth forests, stopped destructive gold mining, prevented giveaways of public land, and halted proposed landfills. It explains the mistakes groups have made that lead to failed campaigns. These guides lead you step-by-step through the minefields citizens, who try to effect change in their communities, must navigate.Successful organizing requires you to master many new things and unlearn many old things. This book explains how to do that.
Is the United States prepared to have a Marshall Plan for the Middle East ? Bush never squarely faced the question of how much treasure and troops the country would expend in the cause of an Iraqi democracy . We've expended almost none ...
Larry J. Sabato (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006), 277. 3 David Lublin, The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 218. 4 Ibid. 5 Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, ...
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The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics Larry Sabato, Glenn R. Simpson ... ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1977 ) ; and Sam J. Ervin , The Whole Truth : The Watergate Conspiracy ( New York : Random House , 1980 ) . 18.
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Why do you think I've worked like a Trojan all day campaigning against you ? " “ Because you want to give me a run for my money ? " “ Because I plan to beat you . " They both lay back in the hay and watched the stars track across the ...