When: 12-1 pm NZST, 4 October
Where: Zoom
Marshall Ganz is one of the world's leading figures in community organising and public narrative. We at For Purpose are big fans of his work.
He has just released his latest book People, Power, Change Organizing for Democratic Renewal where he shares the principles he has honed over the last half-century of creating collective action.
We’re keen to unpack the book and invite you to do the same in this one-off, online book club session. What better way to learn about community-driven change than with a group of like minded people? The session is free and open to anyone who is involved or interested in advocacy, organising, movement building, power or narrative change. The session will be classic book club format (BYO snacks). It will be an opportunity to collectively reflect on the book and share learnings in a lightly facilitated, open group conversation.
We encourage people to read the whole book before the book club meeting. At a minimum we ask that attendees read the book’s introduction, which is available for free on Google Books.
Get the book:
Purchase the full book:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/People-Change-Organizing-Democratic-Renewal/dp/0197569005
Audible: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/People-Power-Change-Audiobook/B0CQPY9ZMY
Apple Books https://books.apple.com/us/book/people-power-change/id6504616039
View the introduction (free):
About the Book:
At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change.
Marshall Ganz is one of the world's leading authorities on democratic organizing, and this book is the culmination of his decades of teaching, research, and work. In People, Power, Change, Ganz distills for students, practitioners, and activists the principles he has gleaned over the last half-century of creating collective action.
Ganz explores the forces, craft, and learned skill of organizing and provides an actionable framework for how to actually do it. He focuses the book on the creation and substance of relationships, the fuel of values and narrative, the resources and power of strategy, the necessity of structure, and the accountability of action. Across these five organizing ideas, Ganz weaves in his personal experiences from a lifetime of organizing in iconic social movements and campaigns to illustrate how collective action actually works and to build the practices and skills that must be developed to do it with intention and with success.
