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With a Little Creativity, Everyday People Can Change the World If you yearn to help make the world a better place but wonder how to do it, look no further. In this unique book, legendary organizer and musician Si Kahn regales us with entertaining, funny, sad, dramatic, and inspiring tales of his work in some of the most important progressive struggles of the past fifty years—the Southern civil rights movement, the Harlan County coal miners’ strike, the fights to abolish prison privatization and immigrant family detention. Si addresses not just strategies and tactics but how creative community organizing can prod us to learn new skills, encourage us to take risks, and transform us into practical visionaries for justice.
Si Kahn has worked for forty-five years as a civil rights, labor, and community organizer. He is the founder of the national progressive organization Grassroots Leadership, coauthor with feminist/public philosopher Elizabeth Minnich of The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. Si’s fifteenth CD of original songs, Courage, about the quiet heroism of everyday people, is being released concurrently with Creative Community Organizing.
“Democracy is not a gift bestowed by the powerful on the rest of us. If we want democracy now, we have to be willing to fight for it—and we need to know how. Si Kahn’s passionate new book, based on a lifetime of organizing for justice, offers hope for all of us who will not compromise the dream of democracy.”
—Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and author of Breaking the Sound Barrier
“Si Kahn has spent a lifetime as a rabble-rouser, an organize,r and a transcendent storyteller. His book is a blueprint for those who really want to make a difference. Read it. Have fun. And change the world.”
—Donna Red Wing, Chief of Staff, Interfaith Alliance
