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Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy : Manual for Activists Jackie Kendall, Kim Bobo, Kimberley A. Bobo, Midwest Academy, Steve Max
Publisher: Seven Locks Press

Charlotte Ryan, Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing. This class will lay out a key tool from the Midwest. What is the relationship between power and social change? Academy called the Strategy chart which will form the basis for the semester-long group assignment. From local neighborhood groups to statewide and national organizations, Midwest Academy has trained over 25,000 thousand grassroots activists from hundreds of organizations and coalitions. Midwest Academy teaches an organizing philosophy, methods, and skills . University of Chicago alum and progressive activist Heather Booth has taken on what she calls a “David and Goliath” fight for financial reform. She is a long-time social justice activist who became involved with union organizing as a student. Prior to Interfaith Worker Justice, Kim was a trainer of organizers for the Midwest Academy, a leading national training institute for the progressive movement and social change, and Director of Organizing for Bread for the World, a multidenominational Christian She is co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the best-selling organizing manual in the country. Kendall is co-author of 'Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Training Manual' Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max. What is the relationship between organizing and social change? I loved the belief that if you organize, you can change the world.” From this beginning, Booth became Social change is needed in many areas, but Booth says that the real point of her work, and the real challenge to the Midwest Academy and its trainees, is building what she calls a “small-d” democracy.