Neighbor Power

Author: Jim A. Diers
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle’s communities. This book not only gives hope that participatory democracy is possible, but it offers practical applications and invaluable lessons for ordinary, caring citizens who want to make a difference. It also provides government officials with inspiring stories and proven programs to help them embrace citizen activists as true partners. Diers’s experience is extensive. He began as a community organizer in 1976, then moved on to help establish and staff a system of consumer-elected medical center councils. This led him to Seattle city government, where he served under three mayors as the first director of the Department of Neighborhoods, recognized as the national leader in such efforts. In the 1990s, Jim Diers helped Seattle neighborhoods face challenges ranging from gang violence to urban growth. The Neighborhood Matching Fund grew to support over 400 community self-help projects each year while a community-driven planning process involved 30,000 people. Diers provides evidence that productive community life is thriving, not just in Seattle, Washington, but in towns and cities across the globe. Both practical and inspiring, Neighbor Power offers real-life examples of how to build active, creative neighborhoods and enjoy the rich results of community empowerment.

Neighbor Power

Author: Jim Diers
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295984445
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Providing concrete examples for citizens and government officials, Diers describes a successful program to support community self-help projects and a community-driven planning process that involved 30,000 people.

My Neighbor's House

Author: Marja Meijers
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 162147562X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
What do we do with the old pages of Exodus 20 in this current age and time? How do we apply them in our daily life? It is one thing to say, "Oh, I don't envy my neighbor, his house, car, or wife. I don't desire what someone else has." But come to think of it, what do you desire? What are the desires of your heart? Are you passionate for the right things? What does the Tenth Commandment offer to today's society? How can you benefit from its wisdom? The message of God's last commandment is both bold and obvious: don't be envious of others. But that isn't always the easiest thing to do, especially with an American media that bombards us with images of size zero celebrities, lavish mansions, and Louis Vuitton. In Marja Meijers's fifth book in the Ten Commandments series, you'll learn how to desire meaningful things and apply God's word to everyday life. Join Marja as she discovers the spiritual principles behind the Tenth Commandment. If you want to deepen your walk in real ways, read and DO this book! Ron Triggs Lead Pastor Church of the Living Christ, Ojai, CA I encourage you to read this book at least twice... please, take more time in a second reading to allow God's Spirit to speak truth deep into your reality. Don Coley Administrator/CAO Teen Challenge of Southern California Author of A Steward's Journey ~My Neighbor's House is the fifth book in a series. Look for others to follow~

The Good Neighbor

Author: Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628951656
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR’s administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of the president, who triumphed over fierce opposition and succeeded in remaking the American political system in ways that continue to shape our politics today. Using the metaphor of the good neighbor, Mary E. Stuckey examines the persuasive work that took place to authorize these changes. Through the metaphor, FDR’s administration can be better understood: his emphasis on communal values; the importance of national mobilization in domestic as well as foreign affairs in defense of those values; his use of what he considered a particularly democratic approach to public communication; his treatment of friends and his delineation of enemies; and finally, the ways in which he used this rhetoric to broaden his neighborhood from the limits of the United States to encompass the entire world, laying the groundwork for American ideological dominance in the post–World War II era.

Hitler, My Neighbor

Author: Edgar Feuchtwanger
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590518640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a Jewish boy growing up in Munich with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German Jewish family: the only son of a respected editor, and the nephew of best-selling writer Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building across the street in Munich. In 1933 his happy young life was shattered. Hitler had been named Chancellor. Edgar’s parents, stripped of their rights as citizens, tried to protect him from increasingly degrading realities. In class, his teacher had him draw swastikas, and his schoolmates joined the Hitler Youth. From his window, Edgar bore witness to the turmoil surrounding the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, start a career and a family, and try to forget the nightmare of his past—a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor.

Government by Neighborhoods

Author: Howard W. Hallman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community power
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description

The Key to My Neighbor's House

Author: Elizabeth Neuffer
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250082714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525

Book Description
Interviewing war criminals and their victims, Neuffer explains, through the voices of people she follows over the course of a decade, how genocide erodes a nation's social and political environment. Her characters' stories and their competing notions of justice-from searching for the bodies of loved ones, to demanding war crime trials, to seeking bloody revenge-convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by simple talk of forgiveness,or through the more common recourse to forgetfulness.

Neighborhood Power

Author: David J. Morris
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

Peaceful Neighbor

Author: Michael Long
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611645697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host of a children's program known for its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we've ripped him out of his political and religious context. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and although he rarely shared his religious convictions on his program, he fervently believed in a God who accepts us as we are and who desires a world marked by peace and wholeness. With this progressive spirituality as his inspiration, Rogers used his children's program as a platform for sharing countercultural beliefs about caring nonviolently for one another, animals, and the earth. To critics who dared call him “namby-pamby,â€ Rogers said, “Only people who take the time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of it.â€ This is the invitation of Peaceful Neighbor, to see and understand Rogers's convictions and their expression through his program. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, it turns out, is far from sappy, sentimental, and shallow; it's a sharp political response to a civil and political society poised to kill.

Missing Pieces (Hello Neighbor, Book 1)

Author: Carly Anne West
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338280090
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Lock your doors! From the creators of the blockbuster horror video game Hello Neighbor comes the story that started it all. Unravel the mystery in this gripping prequel novel!