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Heaney, 2000

Social change references a redistribution of power and wealth favouring the disenfranchised and poorer classes and tending toward political and economic democracy. Social change aims at a shift in the relative position of classes, not in the position of individuals within one or another class.
The Change Agency
2014-03-30T08:26:12+11:00
Social change references a redistribution of power and wealth favouring the disenfranchised and poorer classes and tending toward political and economic democracy. Social change aims at a shift in the relative position of classes, not in the position of individuals within one or another class.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/heaney-2000/

Building Powerful Community Organizations

Ninety percent of people join a group because a person asked them. A few join groups after reading a flyer or newspaper ad. Very few, but often highly motivated, people go looking for groups to join. Most people join because someone they know asks them. Face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball. This is an important finding. If you want people to join your group, you have to ask them, in person. This is what works. Person-to-person. One-on-one.
The Change Agency
2014-05-19T17:54:45+10:00
Ninety percent of people join a group because a person asked them. A few join groups after reading a flyer or newspaper ad. Very few, but often highly motivated, people go looking for groups to join. Most people join because someone they know asks them. Face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball. This is an important finding. If you want people to join your group, you have to ask them, in person. This is what works. Person-to-person. One-on-one.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/building-powerful-community-organizations/

Saul Alinksy 1971

Some of the most successful activist have treated social struggles as learning experiences.
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2014-03-27T02:17:46+11:00
Some of the most successful activist have treated social struggles as learning experiences.
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Richard Healey & Sandra Hinson, ‘Rhyming Hope and HIstory’ 2005

The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots - forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the groups' pluralist assumptions.
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2014-03-30T08:28:29+11:00
The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots - forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the groups' pluralist assumptions.
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Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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2014-05-28T09:09:06+10:00
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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