People, Power, Change
Marshall Ganz
Abstract
Abstract People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal offers an introduction to the practices of leadership, organizing, and action that can make democracy work for all of us. It invites anyone who wants to create real, just, and sustainable change to learn, share, and put to work democratic practices that have been allowed to atrophy in reaction to the challenging political, economic, cultural, and technological changes of the last forty years. Marshall Ganz, one of the world’s leading authorities on the practice of organizing, weaves together the story of his own journey of organizing, learning, and teaching. People, Power, Change invites readers to learn, share, and put to work the core practices (values, concepts, skills) of relationship building, storytelling, strategizing, acting, and structuring that can enable effective democratic organizing—all of which can be put to work in one’s own culture, community, and organization.