Book details

  • Genre:political science
  • Sub-genre:Political Process / Political Advocacy
  • Language:English
  • Pages:120
  • Paperback ISBN:9798350975857

Governing Power

By Dan McGrath, Harmony Goldberg and Grassroots Power Program

Overview

In the Governing Power booklet, we offer a definition of governing power, reflections on the strategies needed to get there, and case studies of organizations that are leading the way – in the hope of sparking new questions, insights, and strategic practice to strengthen our movements.
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Description

A strategic orientation towards governing power can help us move beyond one-off policy campaigns, defensive fights, and single elections, to challenge the deeply entrenched, racialized, gendered, and exploitative status quo. It can help our movements advance towards the transformative change that our communities need. In the Governing Power booklet, we offer a definition of governing power, reflections on the strategies needed to get there, and case studies of organizations that are leading the way – in the hope of sparking new questions, insights, and strategic practice to strengthen our movements.
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About The Author

Dan McGrath is a Senior Strategist at Grassroots Power Project with more than 20 years of community, labor and organizing experience. He served as the founding Executive Director of TakeAction Minnesota and as Executive Director of Progressive Minnesota. He organized school bus drivers with SEIU International and has worked on numerous issue and electoral campaigns. Dan's international experience includes work at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation in the Republic of Ireland, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and as an election observer in El Salvador.

Harmony Goldberg has provided political education for social movements in the United States for over 25 years. She co-founded and led the School Of Unity and Liberation in Oakland, CA. Since then, she has worked closely with the domestic workers movement and with People’s Action. She is currently the Director of Praxis at Grassroots Power Project. Harmony has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York.

Grassroots Power Program is a project of Tides Advocacy and works with advocacy and electoral organizations, as well as philanthropic entities and individuals to develop strategic practices to achieve transformational social change. We use a variety of strategic frameworks and tools to support organizations and donors to be more effective and ambitious. Our frameworks facilitate a shift away from short-term, incremental campaigns and towards building and wielding governing power to achieve economic, racial, gender and environmental justice. // tidesadvocacy.org

Grassroots Power Project (GPP) believes structural transformation of our society is crucial. Stronger, more strategic community and labor organizing formations will help undo the damages of neoliberalism and racial capitalism. GPP works with organizations, alliances and labor to develop new organizing practices to achieve transformational social change. Through decades of partnership with grassroots groups, we have developed a series of strategic frameworks. These tools support organizations to be more effective and ambitious. // grassrootspowerproject.org

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