Are you concerned about the results of the 2024 election? Do you want to get involved in your local community? Are you already involved but wondering how local people and community groups can work together to build power at the local level and beyond?
Building Power in Place: A Municipalist Organizing Toolkit offers an approach to social change that is firmly rooted at the local level. It starts with local organizing and strives to build local power in a way that contributes to change beyond the local level. It’s a nonpartisan approach that’s compatible with many other efforts to create social change.
We don’t currently have a municipalist organization here in Carbondale, Illinois. But we do have many local community groups that are already doing great work. The municipalist approach described in this toolkit can help individuals and groups work together meet people’s needs, protect marginalized communities, and build directly democratic power together.
If this sounds promising to you, let me know! You can find my contact information on my contact page. You can also feel free to share the toolkit directly with anyone else who may be interested.
I anticipate that the next Trump presidency will be far more destructive than the last. But I also believe that people in local communities can work together to survive, to meet our needs, and to build power together. Hopefully this toolkit will help us do that!