MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 080909s2009 tnu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHN65$b.P395 2009
082 00 $a361.80973$222
245 04 $aThe people shall rule :$bACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice /$cRobert Fisher, editor.
260 $aNashville, Tenn. :$bVanderbilt University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0909
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCommunity organizing, ACORN and progressive politics in America / Peter Dreier -- Understanding ACORN : sweat and social change / Wade Rathke -- Education as a field for community organizing : a comparative perspective / Elaine Simon and Eva Gold -- From redlining to reinvestment : economic justice advocacy, ACORN, and the emergence of a community reinvestment infrastructure / Gregory Squires and Jan Chadwick -- Community organizing theory and practice : conservative trends, oppositional alternatives / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge -- ACORN and the living wage movement / Stephanie Luce -- The battle of Brooklyn : ACORN's modus operandi / John Atlas -- Community resistance to school privatization : the case of New York City / Janelle Scott and Norm Fruchter -- 'Don't be a blockhead' : ACORN, protest tactics, and refund anticipation loans / Robert Fisher, Fred Brooks and Daniel Russell -- ACORN experiments in minority voter mobilization / Donald Green and Melissa R. Michelson -- Does ACORN's work contribute to movement building? / Gary Delgado -- What direction community organizing? / Robert Fisher.
610 20 $aACORN (Organization)
650 0 $aCommunity organization$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCommunity development, Urban$zUnited States.
700 1 $aFisher, Robert,$d1947-