The following list was the 2007 Generation Change Internship Class Reading List. The 2008 Internship Class Reading List is still being finalized, but take a look at what last year's program entailed...
Readings About Organizers, Power, Strategy, and Social Movements
Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, "The Education of an Organizer."
Bobo, Kendall and Max.. Organizing for Social Change, Chapter 4, "Developing a Strategy."
Campbell, Meg. "Elements of a Successful Campaign."
Chavez, Cesar. A Union in the Community, Chapter 1: Formation of the Union.
Ganz, Marshall. "Left Behind: Social Movements, Parties, and the Politics of Reform." Unpublished paper. August 2006.
Gecan, Michael. Going Public, Chapter 10: "Three Public Cultures."
Guinier, Lani and Gerald Torres, The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press Copyright 2002), "Race as Political Space."
Hardisty and Bhargava. "Wrong About the Right," The Nation, November 7, 2005.
Lizza, Ryan. "The Agitator," The New Republic, March 19, 2007.
McKnight, John. "Services are Bad for People: You're Either a Citizen or a Client." Organizing, Spring/Summer 1991.
Miller, Jean Baker. Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center. "Women and Power," pp. 197-205, edited by Judith V. Jordan (New York: The Guilford Press Copyright 1991).
Mondros, Jacqueline B. and Scott M. Wilson, Organizing for Power and Empowerment (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). Chapter Two: The Organizers."
Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom, Chap 8, "Slow and Respectful Work: Organizers and Organizing."
Piven and Cloward. Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. Vantage Books, copyright 1977. Introduction.
Thurman, Howard. Chapter 1: "Jesus: an Interpretation." Jesus and the Disinherited, Beacon Press: 1976.
Whitman, Gordon. "Beyond Advocacy: The History and Vision of the PICO Network," Social Policy. Winter 2006-2007.
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