Organizing to Change a City - Kitty Kelly Epstein Kartoniert (TB)

Activist and scholar Kitty Kelly Epstein tells the unique story of a city that recruits a progressive mayoral candidate defeats a political machine mobilizes a thousand residents to make policy and then implements many of the policies created by this participatory process. Violence jobs education and gentrification are all addressed by the ongoing social justice movement and its victories including a 40% drop in the homicide rate 8 000 likely new jobs and a program that produces diverse and effective teachers. This very accessible book will be useful in urban studies sociology educa tion ethnic studies civic engagement political science and policy studies classes and to those who are studying protest movements. The author explains the history of modern urban inequity and the racial wealth gap and then proposes on-going strategy and tactics for social activists in every city. Her co-authors Lynch and Allen-Taylor add their own intimate perspectives on these dynamic developments.