Family Activism
Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends
- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
We live in a world that needs radical transformation if our children and grandchildren are to live healthy, peace-filled lives. But where to start? In this inspiring new book, activist Roberto Vargas says the answer lies surprisingly close: at home, with our closest relationships. In our daily lives we experience countless opportunities to empower, inspire, and support positive change in those around us. In Family Activism Vargas explains how fostering what he calls familiaâclose, loving connections with our relatives and with those we choose to call familyâcan help us develop the skills and attitudes we need to tackle broader problems in our community, our nation, and the world. Vargas explains the ideas underlying the familia approach and the techniques that support it using examples from his own life, some of them very emotionally charged. He does more than just describe practices like the family council, unity circles, and family ceremoniesâhe shares how they transformed him as a husband, father, son, brother, friend, and as a committed community activist. Each chapter ends with a series of questions that will help readers understand these practices more deeply and apply them inside and outside of the family.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: AWAKENING TO ACTIVISM
- PART I: THE FAMILY PERSPECTIVE
- Part II: TOOLS FOR FAMILY POWER
- PART III: MOVING FROM FAMILY TO COMMUNITY POWER
- CONCLUSION: PRAXIS AND BLESSINGS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR