Bill Moyer has been a change activist since the early 1960s, he developed the MAP Model.
Often confused with Bill Moyers, the TV personality. However, they are different people
[bio from wikipedia]
Over the next decade, Moyer was involved in the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign in Washington (1968), nonviolent blockades of arms shipments to Bangladesh (1971) and to Vietnam (1972), support for the American Indian Movement occupation at Wounded Knee (1973) and a nuclear power plant blockade at Seabrook, New Hampshire (1977).
It was during the nonviolent blockade of the Seabrook nuclear plant, which involved the participation of more than one thousand individuals,[citation needed] that Moyer recognised the need for social change activists to understand the dynamics behind movement success, and in particular, to address the contradiction that activists often perceive the normal signs of campaign progress as signs of failure.
The Movement Action Plan (MAP) is one of the tools developed by Bill to achieve this end, and has been used to train hundreds of activists, most notably in the United States, Australia, Canada and Europe.
After the fall of the Berlin wall, Bill participated in many workshops in Eastern Europe about nonviolence and social change. In the mid-1980s, he moved to San Francisco, where he began to explore transpersonal psychology (via IONS) and continued his participation in the Friends meeting there. He also developed a workshop called "Creating Peaceful Relationships" based on his realizations regarding dominator cultures.
His book Doing Democracy (New Society Publishers), co-authored by JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer, summarises and illustrates his theories of social change with case studies from the anti-nuclear, civil rights, gay and lesbian, breast cancer and global justice movements.
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