By Jason Del Gandio, Anthony J Nocella II
The pursuit of freedom and justice is a undying one, yet new activists won't understand the place to start, whereas more matured ones frequently develop into jaded or fatigued. the duty of making a brand new society, loose from oppression and inequality, might be overwhelming. instruments for facilitating motivation, engagement, and verbal exchange can suggest the variation among failure and good fortune for activists and social movements.
Educating for Action collects the voices of activists whose mixed adventure in confronting injustice has generated a wealth of key insights for developing social swap. This useful advisor explores such themes as:
- Community activism and direct democracy
- Conflict negotiation, communique, and rhetoric
- Law, the academic procedure, and way of life activism
- Social media abilities, convention making plans, and on-line organizing
Written in an inspirational tone, Educating for Action consciously straddles the road among highway activism and lecture room guide. Bridging the distance among those worlds makes for a fascinating and instructive handbook for social justice, supporting scholars, lecturers, and bigger activist groups flip their idealism into action.
Jason Del Gandio is a scholar-activist and assistant professor of rhetoric and public advocacy at Temple college. he's the writer of Rhetoric for Radicals: A instruction manual for twenty first Century Activists.
Anthony J. Nocella II is a scholar-activist and senior fellow of the Dispute solution Institute on the Hamline legislation college. he's a long-time anti-racism, formative years justice, felony abolition, hip hop, animal, incapacity, and Earth liberation activist and has released over fifty scholarly articles and e-book chapters and 16 books.
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Educating for Action answers that question. With chapters from “Communication and Rhetoric” to “The Politics of Planning,” Del Gandio and Nocella deliver a sound and contextual book that provides social change workers with a dense and excellent set of resources. This is the book for community development. — Daniel White Hodge, author, The Soul Of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology The rhythm of activism is the beat of engaged citizenship and the pulse of a moral life: we open our eyes and pay attention to the world as it is; we allow ourselves to be astonished at the dazzling beauty as well as the unnecessary suffering all around us; we notice that next to the world as such is a world that could be or should be—a possible world.
ISBN 978-1-55092-570-8 (ebook) 1. Social action—United States. 2. Social justice—United States. 3. Social movements—United States. 4. Social change—United States. 5. Peace. I. , editor II. 20973 C2014-902144-5 C2014-902145-3 New Society Publishers’ mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision. We are committed to doing this not just through education, but through action.
In general, the gap between the rich and poor boils down to quality of life, personal opportunity, and political power. 7 Its current nuclear arsenal contains over 5,000 warheads. 8 It is the first country to develop nuclear weapons and, at the time of this writing, the only country to use nuclear weapons (during World War II). Although the United States often portrays itself as a country of peace, it is perpetually engaged in military conflict of some sort. Here is an abbreviated list of military engagements of the 20th century: World War I and World War II; the Cold War (late 1940s–early 1990s); the Korean War; the Vietnam War; invasion of Grenada (1983); invasion of Panama (1989); the Gulf War (1991); air strikes into Bosnia (1994–1995); and air strikes into Kosovo (1999).