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Publication: The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions For A Fair Economy, United For A Fair Economy

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Title: The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions For A Fair Economy, United For A Fair Economy
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Publisher: United For A Fair Economy
Year: 1997
ISBN 0965924904
Number of Pages 94
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Description / Comments:
The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy 
is a 100-page manual showcasing some of the best media
stunts, street theater skits and creative direct actions
from the labor and social justice movements. This hands-on
manual empowers organizers, artists and educators to get
their message across in powerful, creative ways.

    * 100 pages packed with eye-catching graphics and
photos
    * Strategies and tactics for talking about wealth,
poverty and inequality
    * A survey of creative action cuisines: everything from
billboard correction to guerrilla theater
    * A soup-to-nuts guide for cooking and serving your own
creative actions
    * Complete do-it-yourself recipes for producing our
most well-known performances an in your community,
including: the 100 Musical Chairs, Inequality Olympics, and
the Rich People's Liberation Front
    * A menu packed with creative action ideas, including
such favorityes as: the Corporate Soup Kitchen, Christmas
Carols for the Rest of Us, and Robin Hood: Folk Hero or
Menace to Society

Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-91).
Topics / Keywords: advocacy, activism, reference, social action -- United States -- handbooks, manuals, etc., community organization, equality, community theater -- planning, drama in education, street theater
Section: Advocacy and Activism
Resource Type: Reference
Location: Bookshelves
Copies: 1
Entry Date: October 3rd 2005
Last Updated: August 24th 2007

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