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Leadership in organizing requires accepting responsibility to enable others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty. Organizers ask three questions: who are my people, what is our challenge, and how can we turn resources we have into the power we need to meet that challenge. In this module students learn to work as leadership teams to reach out to constituents to design an organizing campaign. Students learn as reflective practitioners of leadership of their campaign: building relationships committed to common purpose; turning values into motivated action through narrative; strategizing to turn resources into the power to achieve outcomes; taking effective action; and structuring leadership collaboratively.
People Power
First, alert the people who live here. If no one responds, alert the Trusted Circle of family and friends. This Trusted Circle can also check in using the People Power Family app at any time to see how things are going right now and review the daily report to see how things have been going over time.
It is now going to give confidence to the fence-sitters to finally make a decision whether they are going to follow their old conflicted political groupings or they are going to finally make a decision and make a tough choice to work with people power either directly as members of the organization or in memoranda," Mpuuga said.
In 2020, more than 2.8 billion people were living below the poverty line (i.e. with less than $2 a day). The complete eradication of poverty will only be possible if we unite to spread the inclusive economy principles , with the objective of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
People Power Solar Cooperative is like a grid for the transmission and distribution of another kind of power: the combined, connected, and amplified potential of many people sharing resources, ideas, skills, connections, and labor in infinitely creative ways.
In 2018, MCLLMP started implementation of landscape management plans drawn up by 400 villages to restore their land and water resources using a one-time grant. To date, the project has supported 4,500 interventions aimed at empowering communities to revitalize their natural resources using traditional practices. The MCLLMP has disbursed more than Rs 75 crores (US$9.4 million) of NRM grants to restore 204 hectares of mine-spoiled land, reforest 6,000 hectares, and implement soil and water conservation measures across 14,000 hectares, and agri-horticultural activities on 5,000 hectares of land. To build human capital, the project has trained 17,695 people, including 6,487 women, on technical and financial subjects, with a strong focus on digital technologies.
Affected people are always the first, and often the most effective, responders to humanitarian crises. Whether mobilising collective support, negotiating with armed actors, fleeing violence or rebuilding following disasters, affected communities undertake a range of strategies to stay safe and cope with crises. While humanitarian assistance may provide a critical lifeline, the agency, power and relationships that affected people are able to deploy are equally, if not more, important and can be critical determinants of survival and recovery, or of vulnerability and exclusion. This may be more evident in protracted crises where the limits of humanitarian action can be more obvious. Yet, for a humanitarian sector forged on the basis of common humanity and founded on humanitarian principles, assistance is often disconnected from how people actually live their lives, and from the relationships that support and sustain them.
At North Star Fund, we believe in our collective power to transform New York by supporting grassroots organizing led by impacted communities. Our Giving Projects bring together New Yorkers from a wide range of backgrounds to share stories and develop a common analysis of how systemic oppression impacts our lives and intentions.
People, Parks, and Power (P3) is the first national funding initiative in the U.S. to support power building by community-based organizations to reverse deep seated park and green space inequities in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities across the country. P3 is a joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, led and managed by Prevention Institute. P3 will advance park and green space equity through a national grantmaking program, peer-to-peer learning community, research, network building, and strategic communications.
People power explores the history of the theory and practice of popular power. Western thinking about politics has two fundamental features: 1) popular power in practice is problematic and 2) nothing confers political legitimacy except popular sovereignty. This book explains how we got to our current default position, in which rule of, for and by the people is simultaneously a practical problem and a received truth of politics. The book asks readers to think about how appreciating that history shapes the way we think about the people's power in the present. Drawn from the disciplines of history and political theory, the contributors to this volume engage in a mutually informing conversation about popular power. They conclude that the problems that first gave rise to popular sovereignty remain simultaneously compelling, unresolved and worthy of further attention.
1 People power - Christopher Barker and Robert G. Ingram 2 Machiavelli's 'moments' - Catherine Zuckert 3 Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state - Danielle Charette4 Taming the Parliament: John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty - Nathan Pinkoski 5 Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty - William Selinger 6 The revolution for society: rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution - James M. Vaughn 7 Filippo Mazzei's Atlantic revolutions: a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism? - Anna Vincenzi 8 Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic - Joshua A. Lynn 9 Like a god on Earth: popular sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America - Heather Pangle Wilford10 Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain - Greg Conti11 Modern representation and the popular will - Susan Shell and Paul T. Wilford12 Sovereignty, God and the historians - Robert G. Ingram 13 Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty? - Mark BlitzIndex
Preceded by the challenge of the independent Polish trade union Solidarnosc and the Hungarian reburial of the leaders of the 1956 revolt, the opening of the East German border symbolized the end of the Cold War. The liberation of Eastern Europe from Soviet domination also ended the nightmare of a superpower arms race that could have led to the nuclear annihilation of the globe. Some commentators euphorically proclaimed it the "end of history." Twenty years later politicians continue to compete in claiming credit for the miraculous event.
The fall of the Wall was magical because it signaled the peaceful triumph of people's power over a regime that commanded enormous repressive force. Unlike the Revolutionary War in America, the terror during the French Revolution or the bloodshed during the Bolshevik seizure of power, it was nonviolent civil resistance that brought down the ugly concrete barrier that had imprisoned East Germans and East Europeans since August 1961. Keeping the process peaceful took extraordinary restraint by the dissidents inspired by the peace movement, by the frustrated people who wanted to vent their anger, by the communist rulers tempted to let the tanks roll, and by the international leaders who preferred the bipolar stability of the Cold War. That the rebels--save for those in Romania--remained peaceful, that the communist dictators were willing to give in to the popular pressure, that both sides agreed to negotiate at the Round Table, that the citizens repudiated communism in the first free elections and that the international community actually accepted their choice--all this still seems quite miraculous.
Below is a list of people-powered tactics that we hope will help you define your strategy and generate ideas. While this was originally put together in October 2015, when MobLab was a part of Greenpeace, we believe the tactics and examples remain as relevant today as when this was first published.
Encouraging investors to move their money towards better options (or simply away from bad options) is a powerful tactic. The Fossil Free campaign is a global effort to promote divestment from fossil fuels. To date, hundreds of companies have joined a movement that has pulled investments worth trillions of dollars from oil, coal and fossil fuels. ShareAction is dedicated to campaigning for responsible investment by the pensions industry.
In many countries, people can directly contact politicians and government officials with emails, letters, telephone calls, and social media. Some campaigns, like the hand sewn messages created by the Craftivist Collective, have been more creative.
A community can come together to change laws or policy. For example, farmers in Yirca, Turkey, stopped construction of a coal fired power station in their olive groves. In Balcombe, UK, local people opposed natural gas fracking while installing their own renewable energy through Repower Balcombe.
The internet is enabling large groups of people to take on tasks, get involved in decision making, and contribute to solving specific problems. Crowdsourced campaigns organise efforts across communities, social networks and groups to draw on a deeper pool of creativity, knowledge and resources.
Have a complex problem to solve? Competitions or challenges can funnel experts and interested amateurs towards solutions to specific tasks. Greenpeace solicited designs for a water pump which resulted in the successful creation of a portable water pump powered by solar energy that is now being used in Bihar, India. 041b061a72