ABSTRACT
A progressive resurgence is happening across the United States. This book shows how long-lasting coalitions have built progressive power from the regional level on up. Anchored by the "think and act" affiliate organizations of the Partnership for Working Families (PWF) these regional power building projects are putting in place the vision, policy agenda, political savvy, and grassroots mobilization needed for progressive governance.
Through six sections, the book explores how Partnership for Working Families projects are a core part of the defeat of the right-wing in states such as California; the challenge to corporate neoliberalism in traditionally "liberal" areas; and contests for power in such formally solid red states as Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado. This book considers how these PWF groups work on economic, racial and environmental justice challenges, equitable development, and other critical issues. It addresses how, at their core, they bring together labor, community, environmental, and faith-based organizations and the coalitions and campaigns that they developed have won and continue to win substantial victories for their communities.
Igniting Justice and Progressive Power will be of interest to activists and concerned citizens looking to understand how lasting political change actually happens as well as all scholars and students of social work, urban geography, political sociology, community development, social movements and political science more broadly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|68 pages
Setting the stage
chapter 2|9 pages
From the Partnership for Working Families to PowerSwitch
part 2|52 pages
The founders today
chapter 5|31 pages
LAANE brain
part 3|72 pages
From (neo)liberal to progressive cities
chapter 9|25 pages
Building a bigger “We”
chapter 10|14 pages
Racial justice is economic justice
part 4|87 pages
Storming conservative bastions
chapter 11|15 pages
Transforming a conservative county
chapter 12|17 pages
OCCORD
chapter 14|23 pages
Stand Up Nashville
part 5|54 pages
Further Adaptions and Innovations
chapter 18|23 pages
Organizing in rural towns and suburbs
part 6|12 pages
Conclusion