Full Description
This book uniquely demonstrates how a new combination of communities, progressive visions, and strategies provide a path to defeat fascist machinations and strengthen social justice movements.
Would-be change agents, be they first-time voters, freshly minted activists, impacted communities, or veteran strategists will find answers to questions of voting, organizing, and mobilization. In doing so, readers will find answers to activating their networks and communities not merely to vote, but how to build on their "Emergency Election" mobilizing and power-building efforts to win their agendas, regardless of who wins.
This theoretically and empirically-informed handbook for activists, voters, their organizations, unions, and communities provides both mobilizing tools and talking points about the elections' most vital and contested issues.
Contents
Introduction 1. At the Crossroads, Again: Embracing Organizing, Social Movements, and Transformational Change Part I: Voices & Visions, Communities & Key Issues 2. To Save Organized Human Society 3. Mobilizing in Times of Emergency 4. How We Win for Women 5. The Fascist Threat and the Progressive Agenda 6. Political Violence - Old and New, Neither Acceptable 7. The Dystopian Vision of Project 2025 8. Billionaires vs. Your Vote 9. The Human Right to Housing 10. Holding the Fort, Birthing a New World - or Why Labor Unions Matter 11. A Union for All Workers 12. Flow of Resistance: The Power of Border Communities Shaping America's Future 13. Saving the Dead, Making the Future: Public History Against Fascism Intermission (Take Action!) 14. Values, Villain, Vision: Messaging to Mobilize Our Base and Persuade the Conflicted 15. Letter to College Students 16. Nuts and Bolts: Registering, Voting, Mobilizing Your Community Part II: The Power of the Electorate - Working with Voters 17. Turning Out Young Voters of Color by Focusing on Their Priority Issue: The Rising Cost of Living 18. Turning Out Our Peers 19. 1964's Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do 20. Mobilizing with Elder Voters 21. Restoring Democracy through Our Public Schools 22. Working with Labor Movement Voters 23. All Politics is Local: Reflections from the Frontlines of a Progressive Electoral Movement 24. Protecting Voter Rights
