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FROM OUTRAGE TO ACTION - The Politics of Grass-Roots Dissent (Paperback)
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FROM OUTRAGE TO ACTION - The Politics of Grass-Roots Dissent (Paperback)
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From Outrage to Action examines the rise and fall of grass-roots
interest groups through in-depth analyses of four incidents that
mobilized citizens around local injustices. In one case, a local
judge declared a five-year-old sexual assault victim a particularly
promiscuous young lady. In another, an innocent black man died in
police custody. In the third, a man with a criminal record was
charged with murdering a ten-year-old girl, and in the last a judge
commented during a juvenile sentencing that rape is a normal
reaction to the way women dress. Through in-depth interviews with
activists, Laura Woliver examines these community actions, studying
the groups involved and linking her conclusions to larger questions
of political power and the impact of social movements. Group
successes and failures are explained through analysis of fluid
social movements and the role of religion, class, gender, and race.
Woliver found that activists unprepared for the ostracism and
conflict resulting from their dissent retreated from public life,
while those who identified with alternative communities avoided
self-blame and maintained their political commitments. She relates
the community responses in these cases to those in the case of
confessed mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer and in the beating by Los
Angeles police officers of Rodney King. Her findings will make
fascinating reading for those interested in the rise and fall of
grass-roots interest groups, the nature of dissent, and the reasons
why people volunteer countless hours, sometimes in the face of
community opposition and isolation, to dedicate themselves to a
cause. The four ad hoc interest groups studied are the Committee to
Recall Judge ArchieSimonson (Madison), the Coalition for Justice
for Ernest Lacy (Milwaukee), Concerned Citizens for Children (Grant
County, Wisconsin), and Citizens Taking Action (Madison).
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