Title: Organizing to change a city
Description: The book tells the story of a huge number of residents working to change their city.  They recruited a progressive African-American to run for mayor, engaged 1000 people in task forces to make policy; campaigned far and wide to get their new policies implemented; and demonstrated when that was necessary.
Subjects: Economic policy, Protest movements, Occupy movement, Ethnic relations, Political participation, Oakland (calif.), California, politics and government, United states, ethnic relations
Places: Oakland (Calif.), Oakland, California
Time periods: the past 10 years