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Unite and Conquer

How to Build Coalitions That Win - and Last

9781576758892

Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Available: 06/15/09
5.26 x 8.7 · 240 pages
9781576758892
CDN $23.95 · pb

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Kyrsten Sinema

Now more than ever, progressive activists, elected officials, and voters need to learn how to work together and make real change for good. Progressives have been losing campaigns for decades, in part because they started stealing and copying the divisive strategies and tactics of the winners.

As an alternative to the failed practices of negativity and division, Arizona Representative Kyrsten Sinema provides a new model for coalition-building. Her model shows progressives how to work together, across identities and issues, in order to create a broader space for peace and justice. She offers both illuminating examples from successful campaigns and powerful new tools and tactics, including practical advice on shedding the mantel of victimhood. Sinema's no-nonsense, concrete approach shows readers that we are all really more alike than different, and that we can get work together successfully for change when we let go of specific outcomes and focus on our shared values.

Kyrsten Sinema is a classic over-achiever. Following her election to the Arizona State Legislature in 2004, Sinema ran the only successful campaign to defeat the ban on same-sex marriage ballot initiative.