Product Description
by Daniel Hunter (Author)
With 84-pages of full color photos and original source materials, teaching Strategy and Soul has never been easier. Perfect for teachers, trainers, and book clubs.
Readers interested in the original book, Strategy and Soul: a campaigner's tale of fighting billionaires, corrupt officials, and Philadelphia casinos should see: www.StrategyAndSoul.org This reader's guide contains original campaign flyers, reflection questions for each chapter, internal campaign documents, and original handouts and articles from the campaign. For those who want more tools, more tactics, more social movement theory, and more handouts. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION For Activists For Teachers/Academics WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK? DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Chapter 1 - The Phone Call Chapter 2 - Operation Transparency Chapter 3 - The Document Search Chapter 4 - Casino Licensing Chapter 5 - Strategy Retreat Chapter 6 - No Way Without Our Say Chapter 7 - We Are Not Scared of Stunts Chapter 8 - Vote Yes on #1 Chapter 9 - Failed Pledge for Democracy Chapter 10 - Philly's Ballot Box Chapter 11 - Election Day Chapter 12 - Aftershock Chapter 13 - Governor Rendell's Picnic Chapter 14 - Return to Direct Action Chapter 15 - Political Maneuvers Chapter 16 - Practice Site Occupation Chapter 17 - Operation Hidden Costs Chapter 18 - Re-siting Committee Chapter 19 - Casino Slayers Chapter 20 - Epilogue Timeline of Casino-Free Philadelphia ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN MATERIALS (in chronological order) Operation Transparency Flyer Action Schedule for Document Search Written Comments to PGCB Document Search Police Citation Strategy Retreat Agenda No Way Without Our Say Petition A Guide to Getting 65,000 Training Tool: Spectrum of Allies Vote Yes on #1 Flyer Pledge for Democracy Flyer Press Release: Philly's Ballot Box Why Philly's Ballot Box Ballot Box Results: District-by-district Summary of PBB Results Movement Action Plan Casino-Free Philadelphia Strategic Plan How to do a Public Filibuster Article: Let's Be Creatively Maladjusted Philly ProCott Flyer Training Tool: Upside-Down Triangle Article: Into the Streets Standing with the People Award Comparison of Casino Economic Studies Operation Hidden Costs Flyer Open Letter to Resiting Committee Article: On Being a Casino Slayer CAMPAIGNS WE NEVER RAN Challenge Your House's Tax Assessment Citizen's Challenge Philly Casino Planning CommissionAuthor Biography
DIRECT ACTION * Daniel Hunter recently pioneered a direct action campaign that halted a politically-connected $650-million casino project. His recently released book -- Strategy and Soul -- is a first-hand report of that campaign's strategic twists and turns. Most of his work has been involved in leading organized campaigns, as opposed to one-time actions, including running campaigns against the USA PATRIOT Act, working to build more affordable housing in Philadelphia, and fighting for public sector employees with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. TRAINER * His main work is as a Training Elder with Training for Change, where Daniel Hunter focuses on long-term strategy development and training trainers in popular education. He has trained strategy for democratization with ethnic minorities in Burma/Myanmar, pastors in Sierra Leone, independence activists in Northeast India, environmentalists in Australia and Indonesian religious leaders, and more. He is sought after nationally and internationally for his work with Training for Change's experiential methodology, that builds on wisdom from within the ground, building on past successes and challenging groups on their limiting beliefs. STRATEGIST * He regularly is hired to help coach and provide technical assistance to campaigns. The breadth of his work is wide -- a recent month included trainings with union locals on organizing and economic class, Algonquins on direct action strategy, a capstone weekend of a semester-long intensive for Philadelphia community organizers, Quakers on building campaigns to stop mountaintop removal, and leaders learning how to integrate direct action strategy into climate change.
