
Rules for Revolutionaries
How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
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Narrated by:
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Tia Rider Sorensen
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By:
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Zack Exley
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Becky Bond
Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign of Bernie Sanders that helped launch a new political revolution
Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the "rules" that govern campaign strategy.
It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make 75 million calls, launch eight million text messages, and hold more than 100,000 public meetings - in an effort to put Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign over the top.
Bond and Exley, digital iconoclasts who have been reshaping the way politics is practiced in America for two decades, have identified twenty-two rules of "Big Organizing" that can be used to drive social change movements of any kind. And they tell the inside story of one of the most amazing grassroots political campaigns ever run.
Fast-paced, provocative, and profound, Rules for Revolutionaries stands as a liberating challenge to the low expectations and small thinking that dominates too many advocacy, non-profit, and campaigning organizations - and points the way forward to a future where political revolution is truly possible.
©2016 Becky Bond and Zack Exley (P)2017 Chelsea Green PublishingListeners also enjoyed...




















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Narrator Tia Rider Sorensen enlivens the words of authors Bond and Exley, senior advisors to Bernie Sanders's tech-driven presidential campaign. This spirited rendering gives a feel for the 75 million calls, eight million text messages, and 100,000 public meetings that took place during the campaign. In alternating chapters, Sorensen portrays Bond and Exley as they earnestly share suggestions, highlights, and mistakes for the purpose of influencing future campaigns of all sorts. Thinking big and encouraging volunteers are emphasized in Sorensen's uplifting style. Personal anecdotes add levity and human interest. Listeners will be amused by the chapter titled "The Tyranny of the Annoying," which advises leaders to immediately react to people--no matter how well intentioned--whose negative attitudes can help sink a campaign. It's inspiring and enlightening to hear insider views of one of our nation's most unprecedented presidential campaigns.² --AudioFile Magazine
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My favorite rules:
1. You Won’t Get a Revolution If You Don’t Ask for One
6. The Work Is Distributed. The Plan Is Centralized
9. Fight the Tyranny of the Annoying
10. Give Away Your Passwords !
11. Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Big
12. Learn the Basics of Good Management
14. Grow Complexity by Solving Problems as They Arise
16. Best Practices Become Worst Practices
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Get inspired to I rganize BIG
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Very important and useful primer on big organizing
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We know that protesting for incremental change or clicktavism is very ineffective but it seems that having a worth while goal, a great core team and the ability for masses of volunteers to help seems like a powerful campaign strategy. That face to face or over the phone conversations are effective and I love the use of the dialler.
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