In his new book, People, Power, Change — Organizing for Democratic Renewal, Marshall Ganz draws from personal experience as a labor and political organizer to lay out a vision for returning power to the people. If power is what regular people need more of, Ganz outlines the ways that you get it through knowing who you are, what your strategy is and what the actions are that will lead to success.
Ganz joined the United Farm Workers (UFW) as an organizer in the mid-1960s. It was there that he discovered that organizing was not just a function of “earnest, patient and persistent work,” but was a craft that he had to learn. Before the UFW, Ganz helped the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to register voters in Mississippi, where he witnessed the tremendous courage and resiliency of local organizers who worked in the face of deadly violence.
