George Lakey's long-expected book on direct education!  Writes Starhawk about this book: "I've been working with forms of direct education for many decades, and I found new ideas and inspirations in every chapter. For anyone involved in teaching, training, sharing skills, or leading groups, this book is an invaluable resource!"

A Training for Change & Ruckus Society collaboration: a manual for the counter-recruitment movement. This 239-page training manual is chocked full of tools, handouts and articles on what is the poverty draft, how a recruiter gets your number, organizing skills, how to build a campaign, media & messaging, and more. This manual includes group dynamics exericses, strategy tools, and many more that can be useful to other movements, too.

Hundreds of training activities in detail, over 60 handouts with the content of how to defend human rights against violence, an integrated 23-day curriculum, many tips for trainers, and mini-essays on pedagogical theory -- all of this is included in the 634-page manual available from Training for Change (TFC).

This book offers a theoretial model for ensuring that social movements are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health and globalization movements.