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ORGANIZING TO CHANGE A CITY - KITTY KELLY EPSTE...

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  education  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.

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