EDITORIAL: Empowerment through understanding the phases of a cause
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:
Editorial feature:
Empowerment through understanding the phases of a cause
Social Movement Empowerment Project founder Bill Moyer was last mentioned in ANIMAL PEOPLE in his obituary, published in our January/February 2003 edition. His insights, however, have helped to inform almost every ANIMAL PEOPLE editorial.
A key strategist for Martin Luther King’s 1966 open housing campaign in Chicago, Moyer after 1972 spent the rest of his life teaching advocacy tactics. At invitation of ANIMAL PEOPLE president Kim Bartlett, who was then editor of the long defunct Animals’ Agenda magazine, and Friends of Animals president Priscilla Feral, Moyer in September 1989 visited Stamford, Connecticut, to present one of his Movement Action Plan workshops to about 40 leaders of national animal rights groups. Read more