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Listening AlterLinks Topic Index Calling All Radicals How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere. Having the Hard Conversations Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file. Hearts and Minds: How do People Change? Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 If we want to change the world, we need other people - millions, eventually hundreds of millions of others - to agree that the world needs changing and to join us in changing it. It's a daunting prospect. How can we reach and persuade those who may have voted for the likes of Donald Trump and those like him in other countries, or who are not interested in engaging in 'politics' at all? How To Listen Assertively Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 A whole book about listening! (Actually, the concepts here could be presented, less cutely, in one, concise chapter.) Emphasizes the importance of attentive, open-minded listening using plenty of metaphors and examples to drive the principles home. Worth reading. Organising your workplace - getting started You're working, or just started work somewhere where there is no active collective workers' organisation. What can you do to get organised? Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Nowadays many workplaces have no active workers' organisation. Depending on whereabouts you are in the world and what sector you work in there may or may not be much of a trade union presence. And even if there is it may just be a skeleton organisation which only represents workers with individual problems, and is unable to win demands of management. Or worse, it could be actively in cahoots with management against the workers. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018 Hearts and Minds: How do People Change? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?

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