{"product_id":"from-presence-to-power-how-to-take-on-the-fights-that-matter-and-win","title":"From Presence to Power: How to Take on the Fights That Matter--And Win","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"As someone who has been involved in activism a good part of my life, he gave me a new way of thinking about the difference between visibility and power.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jane Fonda, actress and activist\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book gives people the strategy and clarity they need to stop reacting and start winning.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Angela Rye, legal analyst and political commentator\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rashad Robinson is a generationally brilliant thinker and strategist, sharing inspiring, hard-earned wisdom on how to not just survive the present challenging environment, but to grab the reins and win. \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Presence to Power \u003c\/i\u003eis a step-by-step guide for everyone who wants to build and wield citizen power.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Joy-Ann Reid, host and political commentator\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To transform the world for the good, we must study power. As one of the most impactful activist leaders of our time, Rashad Robinson has taken on power--corporate power, media power, racist power--and won time and again.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eDr. Ibram Kendi, \u003ci\u003e #1 New York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Chain of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Presence to Power\u003c\/i\u003e is the handbook I wish I had when I first started organizing, and it's the book I will keep close from this moment forward.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Alicia Garza, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Purpose of Power \u003c\/i\u003eand co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you've ever despaired at the accelerating harms of the world around us and wished there was something you could do: this is the book for you.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ai-jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and executive director of Caring Across Generations\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rashad Robinson has been leading successful campaigns for years, and now he has distilled all that learned experience into a crisp, clear, and compelling roadmap for others who want to learn how to build power and win.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Annie Leonard, former executive director of Greenpeace (U.S.) and creator of \u003ci\u003eStory of Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Presence to Power, \u003c\/i\u003e Rashad names that gap with precision and shows how to close it: how to turn moments into the kind of power that actually changes the rules for workers and their families.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--April Verrett, president of Service Employees International Union\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"How fortunate are we that such a champion of justice is letting us into his mind so that we can make history and not repeat it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of\u003ci\u003e Dear America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a strategically sophisticated book that teaches us how not to simply traffic in echoes and effects, but to be effective in our aims by amassing and then pulling the levers of real power.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Michael Eric Dyson, sociologist, cultural critic, and\u003ci\u003e New York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLong Time Coming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I've been in movements all my life, and I know passion alone doesn't win--power does. \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Presence to Power\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and necessary book that cuts through the illusion that visibility equals victory and offers a real framework for changing systems, not just reacting to them.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Tamika Mallory, author of \u003ci\u003eState of Emergency\u003c\/i\u003e, co-organizer of the Women's March, and social justice activist\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rashad Robinson has literally written the book on power: what it means, how we leverage it, and how we can quit making the same mistakes.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eLeah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Using Robinson's principles for building power, and applying his engaging and incisive exercises to our own goals, we get a master class in real activism. This is the book to read for the fight ahead.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Heather McGhee, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sum of Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A book about winning and building power is a necessary tonic for the times when Donald Trump wields such power. This book is a must-read for anyone committed to winning structural change--not just momentary victories.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRashad Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is a social justice leader, strategist and organization builder. He has designed campaigns to change public policies, corporate practices, electoral outcomes, and media representations. He speaks widely on corporate accountability, narrative change, infrastructure for organizing, and strategies for creating a more equitable world. Through Rashad Robinson Advisors (RRA), he advises and collaborates on developing high-impact strategies to bring about progress with foundations, nonprofits and leaders across media, politics, government and business. He previously led Color Of Change for nearly fourteen years, transforming it from a start-up into a national force for racial justice, and also led programs at GLAAD, reshaping media representations of LGBTQ people during the fights to win marriage equality and end discrimination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWhy do some fights for justice hit a wall while others succeed? What does it take to win social change, especially now? It comes down to understanding one thing: the difference between presence and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFailing to do so is one way we got into this mess, but understanding how power really works is a big part of how we get out of it. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRashad Robinson would know. A social change strategist, he's spent more than twenty years at the highest levels of leadership in two of the most significant social movements of our time: the fight for LGBTQ rights and the fight for racial justice. He's taken on tech giants and the criminal justice system, politicians in Washington and corporate executives in Hollywood. He's been on the front lines of protest and in the back rooms of negotiation. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobinson argues that achieving presence--the visibility of marches, media fads, and making issues popular--is not the same as gaining the leverage required to change the rules for how society works or change the decisions that politicians, corporate executives, and other people in authority make. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a set of essential lessons about power for anyone who wants to understand it, gain it, and use it to win the progress we all deserve--and to defeat the forces trying to take our freedoms away. 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