BUILDING POWER, CHANGING LIVES The Story of Virginia Organizing

By Ruth and Amanda Leonard Pohl Berta

Book Overview

What does it take to build a successful, diverse, powerful grassroots organization in a state that once housed the Capitol of the Confederacy? Virginia Organizing has been working for 20 years to build power and create change all across the state of Virginia--starting in the farthest region from Richmond to empower directly affected people whose voices are often drowned out by systemic oppression and traditional political power structures. From a local campaign in 1998 to diversify an all-white jury pool in Lee County to Virginia Organizing leaders being arrested for immigration reform in Washington, D.C. in 2014, Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing tells the story of how one growing organization is persistently working for long-term, sustainable change in Virginia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692456384
• ISBN13: 9780692456385
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Social Policy Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.