The Activist's Almanac

by Walls, David S.

• ISBN13: 9780671746346
• ISBN10: 0671746340
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Fireside

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 13
Introduction: Making Change	p. 19
Secular Trends and Social Reform	p. 20
Cycles and Generations	p. 22
Making Sense of the New Social Movements	p. 24
The Small-Time Philanthropist and Checkbook Activism	p. 25
Nonprofit Structures	p. 26
Why Third Parties Don't Work, Why Advocacy Organizations Do	p. 28
Socially Responsible Investing and Consuming	p. 30
Working for Change	p. 31
Computer Networks	p. 32
The Citizen Activist	p. 33
Environmental Organizations
From Conservation to Environmentalism	p. 37
Two Traditions in American Conservation	p. 38
Conservationists Revitalized	p. 42
The New Environmentalists	p. 68
Legal Eagles and PACs	p. 90
Land and Wildlife Preservation	p. 97
Computer Networks	p. 103
Peace and Foreign Policy Organizations
Peace and Foreign Policy	p. 107
The Peace Movement	p. 109
The Rise and Fall of the Hawks	p. 110
After the Cold War	p. 111
Owls: The Foreign Policy Establishment	p. 115
Doves: The Pacifist Tradition	p. 119
Doves: From World Government to Arms Control	p. 133
Doves Revived: Nuclear Disarmament	p. 143
Human Rights Organizations
Rights and Liberties	p. 159
Civil Liberties	p. 159
Human Rights: An International Perspective	p. 173
Workers' Rights	p. 181
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms	p. 189
Race and Ethnicity	p. 197
National Advocates	p. 209
Legal Eagles	p. 222
Gender and Sexuality	p. 231
The Woman Suffrage Movement and Its Heritage	p. 231
The New Women's Movement	p. 235
National Advocates	p. 238
Legal Eagles of the Women's Movement	p. 248
Women's PACs	p. 251
Reproductive Rights	p. 253
Gay and Lesbian Rights	p. 263
Age and Ability	p. 269
Elders	p. 269
Children	p. 278
The Disabled	p. 281
Food, Shelter, and Sustainable Development	p. 287
Domestic Programs	p. 287
International Programs	p. 289
From Animal Welfare to Animal Rights	p. 301
Multiissue Organizations
Progressives	p. 317
National Advocates	p. 321
Community Organizing	p. 340
Progressive Public Foundations	p. 354
Conservatives	p. 361
The Revolution That Wasn't	p. 363
Varieties of Conservativism	p. 365
Legal Eagles	p. 382
Women and Family on the Right	p. 386
Bibliographical Notes	p. 391
Index	p. 413
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