Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
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Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals.
Based on John Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to ACORN's staff and board meetings, this book documents the critical transition from founder Wade Rathke, a white New Orleans radical, to Bertha Lewis, a Brooklyn African American activist, as well as future plans for a decentralized ACORN.
The book dispels the conservative myth that we can only help the poor through private soup kitchens and charity and the liberal myth that the solution rests simply with more government services. Seeds of Change not only provides a gripping look at ACORN's four decades of effective organizing but also offers a hopeful analysis of the potential for a revival of real American democracy.
"Seeds of Change is the definitive book on one of the most effective grassroots organizations of low-income Americans."Robert Kuttner
"Seeds of Change is an exceptionally important book a vivid, honest, and gripping look at the front lines, warts and controversies and all."Harry C. Boyte, Founder and Co-director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship
By gaining access and trust where most reporters had failed, Atlas deploys his journalistic skills beautifully in this powerful portrait of people working to realize a vision of social prosperity."Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day
"A Must read.... The reader of Seeds of Change gains an understanding not only of ACORN's success in the fight for social justice, but also why its efforts to empower ordinary people are viewed with alarm and have come under attack by conservative and reactionary forces in our society."William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
Based on John Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to ACORN's staff and board meetings, this book documents the critical transition from founder Wade Rathke, a white New Orleans radical, to Bertha Lewis, a Brooklyn African American activist, as well as future plans for a decentralized ACORN.
The book dispels the conservative myth that we can only help the poor through private soup kitchens and charity and the liberal myth that the solution rests simply with more government services. Seeds of Change not only provides a gripping look at ACORN's four decades of effective organizing but also offers a hopeful analysis of the potential for a revival of real American democracy.
"Seeds of Change is the definitive book on one of the most effective grassroots organizations of low-income Americans."Robert Kuttner
"Seeds of Change is an exceptionally important book a vivid, honest, and gripping look at the front lines, warts and controversies and all."Harry C. Boyte, Founder and Co-director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship
By gaining access and trust where most reporters had failed, Atlas deploys his journalistic skills beautifully in this powerful portrait of people working to realize a vision of social prosperity."Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day
"A Must read.... The reader of Seeds of Change gains an understanding not only of ACORN's success in the fight for social justice, but also why its efforts to empower ordinary people are viewed with alarm and have come under attack by conservative and reactionary forces in our society."William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
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John Atlas, a longtime public interest lawyer, writer, and organizer, is a founder and current president of the National Housing Institute, which publishes Shelterforce. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the Newark Star Ledger, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tikkun, the Nation, Dissent, the New Jersey Reporter, and Social Policy.
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