The people shall rule : ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice / Robert Fisher, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, Robert, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ACORN (Organization).

Community organization--United States.

Community organization.

United States.

Community development, Urban--United States.

Community development, Urban.

Physical Description:

x, 302 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Community organizing, ACORN, and progressive politics in America / Peter Dreier

Understanding ACORN : sweat and social change / Wade Rathke

Education as a field for community organizing : a comparative perspective / Elaine Simon and Eva Gold

From redlining to reinvestment : economic justice advocacy, ACORN, and the emergence of a community reinvestment infrastructure / Gregory D. Squires and Jan Chadwick

Community organizing theory and practice : conservative trends, oppositional alternatives / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, and Eric Shragge

ACORN and the living wage movement / Stephanie Luce

The battle of Brooklyn : ACORN's modus operandi / John Atlas

Community resistance to school privatization : the case of New York City / Janelle Scott and Norm Fruchter

"Don't be a blockhead" : ACORN, protest tactics, and organizational scale / Robert Fisher, Fred Brooks, and Daniel Russell

ACORN experiments in minority voter mobilization / Donald Green and Melissa R. Michelson

Does ACORN's work contribute to movement building? / Gary Delgado

Changing direction : ACORN and the future of community organizing / Robert Fisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826516565

0826516564

9780826516572

0826516572

OCLC:

254526547