Roots for Radicals by Chambers, Edward T. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Series Dedication Title Contents Foreword to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition Edward Chambers—A Life in Organizing Michael A. Cowan Foreword to the First Edition Studs Terkel Introduction The Industrial Areas Foundation: Social Knowledge, Power, and Politicalness

Social Knowledge and Politics

1 The World As It Is and the World As It Should Be

The Two Worlds Living In-Between the Two Worlds Polarities Between the Two Worlds Self-Interest ↔ Self-Sacrifice Power ↔ Love Change ↔ Unity Imagination ↔ Hope Being ↔ Becoming When the Two-World Tension Is Lost, or The War Over Values The Received Culture of Materialism: Domination of the As-Is Impotent Idealism: Domination of the Should-Be Keeping the Two Worlds in Balance

2 The Relational Meeting

The Most Radical Thing We Teach Discovering a New Foundation for Organizing Laying the Foundation for a Broad-Based Citizens Organization The Art of the Relational Meeting After the Meeting A Challenge to You

3 Broad-Based Organizing: An Intentional Response to the Human Condition

The Human Condition Natality Plurality Mortality Civil Society, the State, and the Market Broad-Based Citizens Organizations How to Spot an IAF Organization Two Broad-Based Power Organizations Creating Social Capital The Vocation of Politicalness

4 Relationships: Private and Public

Relationships: Private and Public Keeping Private and Public Straight

5 The Practice of Public Life: Research, Action, and Evaluation

Oxygen for the Body Politic Research Action Evaluation Recognition

6 Reflections of an Organizer

An Organizer’s Journey From Doing Good to FIGHT Organizing in Chicago Making Organizing a Profession Democratic Organizers Values in Action What to Look For in an Organizer Organizing for Family, Society, and Plurality

Disposable Cities Deep Roots in the Windy City United Power in Action Chicago’s Answer to 9/11

8 Thoughts on Twenty-First-Century Challenges

The American Crisis Organizing Civil Society Three Standard Approaches to Public Life Pressures on Civil Society Institutional Power Developing a Politicalness for the Twenty-First Century Radical, Nonpartisan Assemblies

Appendix: Industrial Areas Foundation Network

IAF Trustees IAF National Organizers Executive Team

Notes Index Copyright