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    Grassroots Handbook for Effective Community Organizing
    Grassroots Handbook for Effective Community Organizing
    Grassroots Handbook for Effective Community Organizing
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    Grassroots Handbook for Effective Community Organizing

    By Patrick McElligott

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    The Grassroots Handbook provides guidance and serves as a call to action for those interested in learning more about community and group organizing.

    The book provides real world examples, specifically in the context of the fight against horizontal hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as hydrofracking.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherallypops
    Release dateSep 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476096179
    Grassroots Handbook for Effective Community Organizing
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    Patrick McElligott

    Against all the odds, a young man from southeast London became a missionary to Japan. This story shows the various ways in which God worked in Patrick's life, and through him for the people of Japan. During their thirty years as missionaries to Japan with WEC and CLC, God graciously extended the McElligott's team. As responsibilities and needs increased, so the Lord added to the team, and through them, made the McElligott's long-term service in Japan a reality. Their lives testify that in God's hand nothing needs to be wasted and everything can be used to His glory. Patrick has a PhD in Japanese poetry, and enjoys golf and fly fishing. Patrick has been a Pastor at Wycliffe Baptist Church, Reading since 2005. He is married to Sarah, and they have three grownup daughters and three grandchildren. His autobiography, originally written for his daughters to explain their background, On Giants' Shoulders was first published in 1991, but is now also available as a downloadable ebook.

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      Grassroots Handbook for Effective Community Organizing - Patrick McElligott

      GRASSROOTS HANDBOOK

      FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

      Patrick R. McElligott

      Copyright 2012 Patrick R. McElligott

      Smashwords Edition

      SMASHWORDS EDITION, LICENSE NOTES

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Three Groups

      Chapter 2: Organizing

      Chapter 3: The Mobile Model

      Chapter 4: Letters-to-the-Editor and Letters to Politicians

      Chapter 5: King's Ten Commandments

      Chapter 6: Face-to-Face Meetings

      Chapter 7: We Talk, You Listen

      Chapter 8: Conflict Resolution

      Chapter 9: Coalitions & Confederacies

      Chapter 10: Corporations Are Not People

      Chapter 11: Saul D. Alinsky

      Chapter 12: Infiltrators and Disruptors

      Chapter 13: Target Groups

      Chapter 14: Water Rules

      Chapter 15: Handsome Lake

      Chapter 16: Self Doubt and Fear

      Chapter 17: Evolution and Sidney

      Chapter 18: How Far?

      Afterword

      Contact Your Representatives

      About the Author

      FOREWORD

      There was a boy who had a path to follow. He knew where the path was located and often would sit at the trailhead, coming up with reasons each day to avoid starting his task.

      When he finally decided to take the path, he found it was overgrown and he could no longer find his way.

      --Traditional Native American story, passed down by Chief Paul Waterman

      INTRODUCTION

      Among the most significant of grassroots movements in recent years is what has been happening in Sidney, New York. In response to the efforts of three Tea Party / Republicans on the Town Board (including Supervisor Bob McCarthy) to force a tiny Sufi settlement to excavate Islamic graves from Sidney, a wide range of concerned citizens began to organize an opposition party. The Tea Party effort, which gained both national and international media attention, would fail.

      Those same concerned citizens would discover, by attending the Town Board's monthly meetings, that the same three radical, right-wing activists were engaged in secretive planning to promote hydrofracking in Sidney and surrounding towns. As a result, these citizens formed the Sidney Bi-Partisan Committee, and successfully ran two candidates for the Town Board in fall of 2011. Both candidates won.

      However, shortly after taking office, Walter Goodrich died unexpectedly. Then, the husband of the second officeholder, Gaby Pysnik, also died unexpectedly. During the period of mourning, Supervisor McCarthy would bully and humiliate Mrs. Pysnik until she resigned from office. Still, the Sidney Bi-Partisan Committee struggles on: they have found two solid candidates to run for the vacated seats, and continue to oppose hydrofracking.

      This committee is composed of registered Democrats, Republicans, Greens, and independents. Its members recognize the connection between racial, ethnic, and religious hatred; sexism; and the mindset that destroys the environment without conscience.

      *****

      I was born in Sidney in the late 1950's, and graduated from high school there in 1976. Since my teens, I would be involved in Sidney politics as a community organizer / grassroots activist. I advocated for students' rights, and led the effort to expand recreation opportunities for young folks in the community that resulted in the Sidney Boys & Girls Club being opened.

      As an adult, I organized 120 families living in a low-income neighborhood who were facing eviction because a combination of businessmen and politicians planned to misuse federal HUD funds intended to benefit the poor. I led a twenty-year effort to get the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address a 120-acre industrial toxic waste dumpsite known as the Richardson Hill and Sidney Landfill Super Fund Sites. I worked with the defense committee to free Rubin Hurricane Carter, who endured two decades of cruel incarceration for a crime that he did not commit. I was a victims' advocate in a local racially motivated hate crime, in which the local justice system was unwilling to hold members of a violent gang responsible for their brutal crimes. I helped to run campaigns of candidates running for local, county, and state offices. I also served as the top assistant to Onondaga Chief Paul Waterman on a variety of burial protection and repatriation cases. In one of these, I co-wrote the NYS Supreme Court case Haudenosaunee v. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.

      In 2003, I was retired from my job at the Chenango County Mental Health Clinic,

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