Daniel Hunter

This is an accessible and engaging guide that responds to the "what do I do now?" question most readers will have after reading Michelle Alexander's _The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness_. While the guide is pitched towards movements addressing the issue of mass incarceration, the lessons and examples Hunter gives apply to movement building for all kinds of causes (and, to be honest, may also help with just general interpersonal relations). This can be read show more independently of Alexander's book as a way to focus a group or campaign. I particularly liked how Hunter addressed popular myths about movements as well as the idea of the consent theory of power (or power as an inverted triangle that multiple factors are holding up). show less

Concise, clear, and engaging, "Building a Movement/An Organizing Guide" is the perfect companion to Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow". It makes taking action feel manageable, and offers examples from history in which individuals and small groups of people made a difference, changed minds, and changed laws.

The school-to-prison pipeline and the entire PIC are in need of healthy, peaceful disruption so that recidivism is decreased, the system is fair, abuses are eliminated, and those who show more serve their time reenter the world with the tools and means to escape the cycles that class systems and economic challenges create.

This book goes a long way in helping the average citizen and the engaged activist alike understand how to create a blueprint that can create positive change. show less

I really really enjoyed this- it's a really good, very accessible basic primer on organizing for people who want to do more. The examples were all clear and accessible, and I would strongly recommend it to people who read The New Jim Crow and want to do something, or for others who have hit a point in their social justice education where they are beginning to feel helpless and need to begin to do something. Sometimes its overly simplistic, but I recognize that it's intentionally so in a lot show more of ways. show less

I picked this up for free a while ago. Very short & definitely thought provoking. If you don't have the time to go through all of "This is an Uprising" this is a great alternative. I thought the organizer/helper/rebel/advocate framework is useful, as well as the pillars of support model.