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We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk about what They Do--and Why.(Book review)
WE MAKE CHANGE: COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DO--AND WHY
By Kristin Layng Szakos and Joe Szakos
Vanderbilt University Press, 280 pages
WHAT DO PEOPLE KNOW about community organizers? Not enough, according to Kristin Layng Szakos, former editor of a journal on organizing in Appalachia, and Joe Szakos, executive director of the Virginia Organizing Project, who set out to remedy this situation by soliciting stories from dozens of community organizers across the country.
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We Make Change parses the organizing experience into chapters like, "How I Started Organizing," "What Makes a Good Organizer" and, kindly, "Disappointments Are Inevitable." Interspersed throughout are first-person profiles of folks like Rhonda Anderson, Jerome Scott and Vivian Chang, who organize around environment, housing rights and poverty issues.
The book is an immensely readable resource of collected knowledge and lived experiences. Seasoned organizers will nod with knowing recognition as they read the words of their colleagues and the uninitiated will find the book a solid primer on the work ...
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