Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Foreword to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition Edward Chambers—A Life in Organizing
Foreword to the First Edition
Introduction: The Industrial Areas Foundation: Social Knowledge, Power, and Politicalness
	Social Knowledge and Politics
Chapter 1: The World As It Is and the World As It Should Be
	The Two Worlds
	Living In-Between the Two Worlds
	Being ↔ Becoming
	When the Two-World Tension Is Lost, or The War Over Values
	Keeping the Two Worlds in Balance
Chapter 2: The Relational Meeting
	The Most Radical Thing We Teach
	Discovering a New Foundation for Organizing
	Laying the Foundation for a Broad-Based Citizens Organization
	The Art of the Relational Meeting
	After the Meeting
	A Challenge to You
Chapter 3: Broad-Based Organizing: An Intentional Response to the Human Condition
	The Human Condition
	Civil Society, the State, and the Market
	Broad-Based Citizens Organizations
	How to Spot an IAF Organization
	Two Broad-Based Power Organizations
	Creating Social Capital
	The Vocation of Politicalness
Chapter 4: Relationships: Private and Public
	Relationships: Private and Public
	Keeping Private and Public Straight
Chapter 5: The Practice of Public Life: Research, Action, and Evaluation
	Oxygen for the Body Politic
	Research
	Action
	Evaluation
	Recognition
Chapter 6: Reflections of an Organizer
	An Organizer’s Journey
	From Doing Good to FIGHT
	Organizing in Chicago
	Making Organizing a Profession
	Democratic Organizers
	Values in Action
	What to Look For in an Organizer
	Organizing for Family, Society, and Plurality
Chapter 7: Broad-Based Organizing for the Twenty-First Century: United Power for Action and Justice
	Disposable Cities
	Deep Roots in the Windy City
	United Power in Action
	Chicago’s Answer to 9/11
Chapter 8: Thoughts on Twenty-First-Century Challenges
	The American Crisis
	Organizing Civil Society
	Three Standard Approaches to Public Life
	Pressures on Civil Society
	Institutional Power
	Developing a Politicalness for the Twenty-First Century
	Radical, Nonpartisan Assemblies
Appendix: Industrial Areas Foundation Network
	IAF Trustees
	IAF National Organizers
	Executive Team
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 8
Index