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People and Power in San Francisco
A Community Organizer's Tale, People and Power in San Francisco is available
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by Mike Miller
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Paperback, 284 pages
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About the Book
The rise and fall of the multi-issue Mission Coalition Organization is recounted in A Community Organizer’s Tale, a richly detailed story of people power set in San Francisco’s predominantly Latino Mission District. Employing strategies inspired by community organizer Saul Alinsky and the Deep South civil rights movement, the organization defeated urban renewal, negotiated jobs for the unemployed, and protected low-income tenants from exorbitant rents until it was ultimately weakened by federal “Model Cities” funding. Embodying the concept, recently returned to the public eye by its proponent Barack Obama, that “change comes from below” and combining colorful stories, lessons on organizing for social and economic justice, public policy analysis, a keen eye for American politics, and reflection on democratic theory, this is a thoughtful and hopeful antidote to cynicism, apathy, and powerlessness.
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About the Author
Mike Miller was born in San Francisco’s Mission District. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and did graduate work in sociology at Berkeley and Columbia University. He directed community organizing projects in Kansas City and San Francisco before starting ORGANIZE Training Center. He has taught urban studies and political science at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, Stanford, Notre Dame, and elsewhere. His articles on community and labor organizing have appeared in Social Policy, Christianity and Crisis, Boston Review, the liberal democrat, Socialist Review, Generations, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Urban Planning, Dissent, and the San Francisco Examiner.
