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Book Reviews
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The Troublemaker's Teaparty: A Manual for
Effective Citizen Action
by Charles Dobson
(New Society; 2004; $15.95; 210pps)
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This author certainly did his homework. Don’t bother reinventing the wheel. Start reading this book. He has material about starting a core group, getting more people, how to organize around an issue, keeping the people involved, fund raising, dialoguing, moving toward the possibility of deep community where trust and intimacy and conflict resolution methodologies are intact, planning a project, publicizing, making the media work for you, preventing grassroots “wilt,” celebrations, creating workshops, contacting the policy makers, having public meetings, media advocacy, what works in social movements and more. This may appear exhausting but heh! who needs to read every word right away. These are more like meditations. Perhaps even create a study group to study this book, a chapter a week. If anyone does it, make sure you tell us all about it.
We are at a stage where we need all the help we can get when it comes to working with people, working with a project, i.e., initiatives, resolutions, ordinances, etc. speaking with policy makers, creating a movement, etc..
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