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Book

Reclaiming our democracy : healing the break between people and government

Call Number

  • 324.4 D141 (CEN)

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Edition

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Publication Information

Philadelphia : Camino Books, Inc., [2013]

Physical Description

xxvi, 285 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

Most people see working to end global poverty and ensure a stable climate as a fool's errand. Add to that the Citizens United decision and the flood of money rushing into politics and the despair grows deeper. But activist and author Sam Daley-Harris has helped thousands of ordinary citizens transform from hopeless bystanders to powerful advocates. This 20th anniversary edition has a new chapter on the groundbreaking work of Citizens Climate Lobby, an increasingly powerful new advocacy group following the RESULTS model, and another new chapter on the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, a new initiative focused on spreading the original concepts developed by RESULTS.

Contents

  • Getting started : from hopelessness to action
  • Getting to the media : finding a public voice
  • Expanding nationwide : learning the importance of speaking powerfully
  • Our first victory : the Global Primary Health Care Initiative
  • Getting to our courage and action on Ethiopia
  • Moving to Washington and to new issues : the International Fund for Agricultural Development
  • Vitamin A : believing is seeing
  • Shots felt around the world : the Universal Child Immunization Act
  • Raising money : fundraising was a slower breakthrough
  • Starting a RESULTS group in Albuquerque or any city : if at first you don't succeed
  • Expanding RESULTS beyond the United States : starting RESULTS in Britain
  • Going down under : starting RESULTS in Australia
  • Starting RESULTS in Germany
  • Starting RESULTS in Japan
  • Banking on the poor : the Microenterprise Loans for the Poor Act
  • A personal healing and an organizational healing : building community
  • Eliminating the worst aspects of poverty : the Global Poverty Reduction Act
  • The Global Poverty Reduction Act : part II
  • RESULTS conferences : more time for healing
  • Getting coverage on RESULTS : I love a parade
  • Checking implementation : is the Microenterprise Poverty Lending Program working?
  • Shining a light on the needs of children : the 1990 World Summit for Children candlelight vigils
  • Starting RESULTS in the USSR
  • How to heal the break between people and government : the presentation is the first step
  • How to do it! : RESULTS innovations
  • Working with a member of Congress
  • Working with the media : speaking to the entire community
  • 1991-2004 : from civic cynics to empowered citizens
  • The RESULTS model takes aim at climate change
  • Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation.

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