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A lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns-teaching us how to achieve real progressive change. A lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial and economic justice, it is important to remember that marching is only one way to take to the streets. Protest must be supplemented with the sustained direct action campaigns that are crucial to winning major reforms. Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s,George Lakey has spent decades helping direct action tactics flourish and succeed on the front lines of social change. Now, in this timely and down-to-earth guide, he passes the torch toa new generation of activists. Lakey looks to successfulcampaigns across the world to help us see what has worked, whathasn't, and why- from choosing the right target to designing a creative campaign;from avoiding burnout within your group to building a movement of movementsto achieve real progressive victories. Drawing on the experiences of a diverse set of ambitious change-makers, How We Win shows us the way to justice, peace, and a sustainableeconomy. This is what democracy looks like.

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George Lakey's Manual for Direct Action was literally a life saver for many during the height of the struggle for Black freedom and dignity in the 1960s. How We Win has arrived to us at another key moment in our human journey. It is a guide for our collective liberation, informed by decades of Professor Lakey's ongoing research and teaching since the '60s. Following these steps will indeed help us achieve a more just and humane society. --Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King, CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change If you want to be a soldier, you can go to West Point. If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker--well, this is an awfully good place to start. George Lakey has been near the center of American resistance for decades, and so he has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights--not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual! --Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org This book is a chance to sit around the supper table with a living legend of U.S. social movements, a mentor who speaks from experience yet honors the young. His lessons and stories leave us all stronger, wiser, and more hopeful about our capacity for making a better world. --Nathan Schneider, author of Everything for Everyone Hard-won advice for community organizers...Clear, encouraging, and potentially empowering. --Kirkus Reviews Inspiring stories of effective, successful campaigning.... I recommend George Lakey's How We Win. --Peace News

If you want to be a soldier, you can go to West Point. If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker--well, this is an awfully good place to start. George Lakey has been near the center of American resistance for decades, and so he has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights--not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual! --Bill McKibben, co-founder 350.org This book is a chance to sit around the supper table with a living legend of U.S. social movements, a mentor who speaks from experience yet honors the young. His lessons and stories leave us all stronger, wiser, and more hopeful about our capacity for making a better world. --Nathan Schneider, author of Everything for Everyone

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GEORGE LAKEY has been active in direct action campaignsfor six decades. Recently retired from Swarthmore College, where he wasthe Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change, Lakeywas first arrested at a civil rights demonstration in March 1963, and hismost recent arrest was on March 29, 2018, as a participant in the PowerLocal Green Jobs Campaign. His previous book was Viking Economics- How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too. He lives in Philadelphia.

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