Seeds of change : the story of ACORN, America's most controversial antipoverty community organizing group /

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From the Publisher: Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal division...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Atlas, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
ACORN (Organization)
Community organization > United States.
Community development, Urban > United States.
Organisation communautaire > États-Unis.
Développement communautaire urbain > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Community development, Urban.
Community organization.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1: Wade Rathke and the roots of ACORN
  • 2: Stepping onto a larger stage
  • 3: ACORN's Model T
  • 4: Innovation of electoral politics
  • 5: Organizing a union in the hood
  • 6: Partnering with the enemy
  • 7: Urban homesteading
  • 8: Political ground shifts
  • 9: New York: A new model
  • 10: Living wage
  • 11: Never borrow money needlessly: ACORN and the subprime crisis
  • 12: ACORN's family party
  • 13: Atlantic yards, the nets, and the battle of Brooklyn
  • 14: Then, overnight, it is washed away
  • 15: Rich Gumbo
  • 16: Right to Vote
  • 17: Growing pains
  • 18: Prostitute and the assault
  • Epilogue: Progressive social movement
  • Appendix A: Finding and developing leaders
  • Appendix B: Running voter-registration campaigns
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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