Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy : Manual for Activists Jackie Kendall, Kim Bobo, Kimberley A. Bobo, Midwest Academy, Steve Max
Publisher: Seven Locks Press

From local neighborhood groups to statewide and national organizations, Midwest Academy has trained over twenty-five thousand grassroots activists from hundreds of organizations and coalitions. The first is from the Midwest Academy, a Chicago-based social change activist school that since the 1970s has been training organizers for communities, unions, women's groups and other social movements. Prior to Interfaith Worker Justice, Kim was a trainer of organizers for the Midwest Academy, a leading national training institute for the progressive movement and social change, and Director of Organizing for Bread for the World, a multidenominational Christian She is co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the best-selling organizing manual in the country. Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy : Manual for Activists by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall and Steve Max. Midwest Academy teaches an organizing philosophy, methods The Midwest Academy's 425-page manual Organizing for Social Change is widely used by radicals as a textbook on how to conduct direct action organizing. Prior to IWJ she worked as the national organizing director for Bread for the World and taught at the Midwest Academy, a national training institute for community organizers. Organize for Social Change Midwest Academy Manual for Activists Third Edition, Kim Bobo et al, Seven Locks Press, 2001. The Activist's Handbook: A Primer Updated Edition with a New Preface by Randy Shaw. This is one of the best books about collective action and putting the screws to decision-makers. She is a long-time social justice activist who became involved with union organizing as a student. She is the author of several books including the best-selling organizing manual, "Organizing for Social Change and Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid-And What We Can Do About It." A key organizer of Peace activists protest use of drones (Metro). Also included are anecdotes 71YKFV56VFL._SL110_.gif First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and the Rev. This Midwest Academy Manual for Activists is central to its training programs and seminars, and it provides an invaluable reference source for organizers throughout their careers.