KUYEK: Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach

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Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach

http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/Community-Organizing/

August 24, 2011

Fernwood Publishing has just released Joan Kuyek's new book, Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach. A flyer with more in-depth information about the book is attached to this email.

In this engaging and passionate book, long-time community organizer Joan Kuyek offers important insights and concrete tools to encourage people to get involved in social justice action at the community level. In Canada, activists are frustrated with their inability to effect change in the global economic system, overwhelmed by the number and complexity of issues and too often unaware or dismissive of the efforts of other activists. As a result, social forces for justice and the environment are fragmented and ineffective, and the economic elite grows more powerful. Community Organizing argues that it does not have to be this way. Suggesting that most of our attempts at change and community-building fail because we cannot get along with each other, Community Organizing starts at the community level to describe how we can work together and create organizations based on dignity and respect. It provides strategies to build movements from the community to assert democratic political power and tools to create a culture of hope in this time of despair. This book offers the means to reclaim political power in Canada.

If you have any questions about the book or would like to contact the author, please do not hesitate to contact me. Joan will be launching her book in Ottawa on September 7 at the Parliament Pub on Wellington Street at 5pm.

Kind regards,
Candida Hadley
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Candida Hadley
Managing Editor
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