Organizing to Change a City: In collaboration with Kimberly Mayfield Lynch and J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

by Kitty Kelly Epstein

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Activist and scholar Kitty Kelly Epstein tells the unique story of a city that recruits a progressive mayoral candidate, defeats a political machine, mobilizes a thousand residents to make policy, and then implements many of the policies created by this participatory process. Violence, jobs, education, and gentrification are all addressed by the ongoing social justice movement and its victories, including a 40% drop in the homicide rate, 8,000 likely...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1433115972

ISBN13:9781433115974

Release Date:August 2012

Publisher:Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

Length:173 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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