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Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America

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Activism, Inc. introduces The usa to an increasingly more familiar political actor: the canvasser. She’s the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you in the street or knocking on your door, the foot soldier of political campaigns. Granted unprecedented get admission to to the “People’s Project,” an unknown yet influential organization driving left-leaning grassroots politics, Dana Fisher tells the actual story of outsourcing politics in The usa. Like the major corporations that outsourced their customer service to companies out of the country, the grassroots campaigns of national progressive movements―including Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Save the Children, and the Human Rights Campaign―have been outsourced at different times to this single organization. All over the 2004 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party followed a similar outsourcing model for their canvassing. Fisher examines the history and rationale in the back of political outsourcing at the Left, weaving together frank interviews with canvassers, high-ranking political officials across the political spectrum, and People’s Project management. She compares all of this to the grassroots efforts at the Right, which remain firmly grounded in communities and local politics. This book offers a chilling review of the consequences of political outsourcing. Connecting local people at the streets all through The usa to the national organizations and political campaigns that make up progressive politics, it shows what happens to the passionate young activists outsourced to the clients of Activism, Inc.

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