Marshall Ganz

Dec 1, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Steve Dubb |Marshall Ganz

Above photo: Book cover by Oxford University Press. A Conversation with Marshall Ganz. Organizing is a form of leadership that centers on building relationships, telling stories, strategizing, acting, and creating sustainable community infrastructure. Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice.

Nov 30, 2024 | portside.org | Steve Dubb |Marshall Ganz

How To Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation With Marshall Ganz Published November 30, 2024 Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world.

Nov 22, 2024 | znetwork.org | Marshall Ganz |Steve Dubb

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Steve Dubb: You indicate in your book that you are writing about the “who, why, and how of democratic practice.” Could you expand on this? Marshall Ganz: Democracy is not something you have; it is something you do. If you’re not doing it, it’s not real. Sadly, in our country, there is less and less of it being done. Take the replacement of self-governing organizations with nonprofits or NGOs: there is nothing democratic there.

Nov 19, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Marshall Ganz

In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. In the section excerpted here, taken from the book’s introduction, Ganz issues his call for a renewal of US democratic practice. This excerpt is from People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic RenewalReprinted here with author and press permission. Millions of Americans could strengthen our democracy by practicing it.

Nov 19, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Marshall Ganz

Many Americans woke up to the fact that democracy was in trouble only on November 9, 2016, the day after Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. Others, who had known trouble for much of their lives, in the US and around the world, were less surprised but more directly threatened. The promise of democracy seemed to be at greater risk than at any time since the 1930s.