Empowering the Earth: Strategies for Social Change

by Alex Begg (Author)

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  Emerging directly out of the Green movement's experience of challenging, using, generating and overcoming power in the UK, this book was written over eight years, during which the author was actively involved in Green politics, co-operative economics and non-violent direct action. It shows how power is a dynamic, living process, binding us together and building our institutions. Political action which is not based on an understanding of power is best uncoordinated and unfocused, and at worst leads to a recreation of the power structures that it sets out to undermine. This book shows how we can distinguish between different patterns of power to contrast those which threaten stability with those that enable us to live naturally and harmoniously, and demonstrates a Green strategy that works in a diverse and interconnected way to build the dynamic of empowerment into a viable social alternative.