Advocacy Organizing

Advocacy Organizing examines the political and cultural contexts that surround grassroots campaigns in today’s turbulence. Integrating local and national perspectives helps activists identify strategic opportunities for growing their organizations, broadening their support, leveraging their influence, changing institutional practices, and contributing to larger movement building. Each chapter brings thought-provoking perspectives to key issues about progressive social change. Advocacy Organizing will stimulate useful discussions among those doing and supporting local organizing as well as those wanting deeper understanding about social dynamics. Steven E. Miller is a life-long political activist, including as a community and state-wide campaign organizer, promoting a broad range of public education outreach, and dealing with the interaction of technical issues with advocacy efforts. His writing style is conversational and informal while providing important insights into social change dynamics.Some of the topics covered LOCAL AND Leveraging Reality In Today’s TurbulenceADVOCACY AND Creative Anarchy and Effective OrganizationCREATING STICKY ORGANIZATIONSTHREE PHASES OF Protest, Pushing, PartnershipADVOCACY AND INSTITUTIONAL Political Will, Agency Capacity, PermanenceTHEORIES OF What Makes The Winds BlowSTRATEGIC VISIONS AND Community, Equality, Freedom, Democracy CULTURE AND Majoritarian Inertia and Social TectonicsWHY THE PUBLIC SECTOR CAN’T BE RUN LIKE A BUSINESSPUBLIC-PRIVATE Creating Public Value?