Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World

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A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts

offers the same winning combination of history, theory, and strategy for a new generation of activists.

Through hard-hitting case studies, this ground-breaking book describes six sources of power for underdogs, and seven concrete methods that social movements can use to win: base-building, disruption, momentum, narrative shift, electoral work, inside-outside campaigns, and collective care.

Practical Radicals is based on interviews with leading organizers and showcases stories of diverse progressive movements and organizations that have wonfrom unions winning improvements in working peoples lives, to community organizations on the frontlines of the fight for racial justice, immigrant rights to coalitions winning elections in the states, and major policy wins for climate justice.

A book for activists, organizers, and any citizen hoping to join the fight for a better society, Practical Radicals is a deeply informed resource that is designed to set the stage for the next fifty years of changemaking.

Author Bio

Deepak Bhargavahas been an organizer and campaigner for over thirty years. He is currently a distinguished lecturer at CUNY, former president and executive director of Community Change, and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. The co-editor (with Ruth Milkman and Penny Lewis) ofImmigration Mattersand co-author (with Stephanie Luce) ofPractical Radicals(The New Press), he lives in New York City.
Stephanie Luceis a professor of Labor Studies and Sociology at CUNY. She is the author of numerous books on the labor movement and the living wage, as well as the co-author (with Robert Pollin) ofThe Living Wageand co-author (with Deepak Bhargava) ofPractical Radicals(both from The New Press). She lives in New York City.