How People Get Power: Revised Edition

A new, revised edition for & about community organizers by noted civil rights, labor & community organizer Si Kahn. Based on Kahn's conviction that the best community organizers empower people rather than lead them, HOW PEOPLE GET POWER describes how community-based & group organizers can become more effective in enabling others to improve their lives - convincing naysayers, persuading policymakers & using self-determination to create change. HOW PEOPLE GET POWER covers each stage of the organizing effort - from assessing the needs of the group to leaving the community after a sound group-managed structure has been established. Chapters inform the reader about making contacts, building political power, planning self-help strategies & developing leadership within the community. Organizers who work with comunities, organizations & unions will find HOW PEOPLE GET POWER a practical resource for bringing about constructive social change. It is also an excellent book for organization & community courses & a useful adjunct text to Kahn's other popular guide, ORGANIZING: A GUIDE FOR GRASSROOTS LEADERS. Includes the essay-song "I Have Seen Freedom" & a foreword by U.S. Senator Paul David Wellstone & introduction by Chandra Talpade Mohanty.Si Kahn is the author of 'How People Get Power: Revised Edition', published 1994 under ISBN 9780871012364 and ISBN 0871012367.