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    The document outlines four roles in social change - helper, advocate, organizer, and rebel. For each role, it describes effective and ineffective approaches. An effective helper empowers clients and educates about social systems. An effective advocate uses research and legal means to push for clearly defined demands. An effective organizer builds grassroots groups and nurtures natural leaders with a focus on long-term movement development. An effective rebel uses nonviolent direct action strategically to spotlight issues and show moral superiority.

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    The document outlines four roles in social change - helper, advocate, organizer, and rebel. For each role, it describes effective and ineffective approaches. An effective helper empowers clients and educates about social systems. An effective advocate uses research and legal means to push for clearly defined demands. An effective organizer builds grassroots groups and nurtures natural leaders with a focus on long-term movement development. An effective rebel uses nonviolent direct action strategically to spotlight issues and show moral superiority.

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    The document outlines four roles in social change - helper, advocate, organizer, and rebel. For each role, it describes effective and ineffective approaches. An effective helper empowers clients and educates about social systems. An effective advocate uses research and legal means to push for clearly defined demands. An effective organizer builds grassroots groups and nurtures natural leaders with a focus on long-term movement development. An effective rebel uses nonviolent direct action strategically to spotlight issues and show moral superiority.

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    T RAINING FOR C HANGE HANDOUT

    WWW.TRAININGFORCHANGE.ORG

    Four Roles in Social Change


    Helper

    Advocate

    EFFECTIVE

    INEFFECTIVE

    EFFECTIVE

    INEFFECTIVE

    Assists people in
    ways that affirm
    their dignity and
    respect
    Shares skills and
    brings clients
    into decisionmaking roles
    Educates about
    the larger social
    system
    Encourages
    experiments in
    service delivery
    which support
    liberation

    Believes charity can


    handle social problems,
    or that helping
    individuals can change
    social structures
    Focuses on casualties and
    refuses to see who
    benefits from
    victimization
    Provides services like job
    training which simply
    give some people a
    competitive edge over
    other people, without
    challenging the scarcity
    which gives rise to
    competition

    Uses mainstream
    institutions like
    courts, city hall,
    legislatures to get
    new goals and
    values adopted
    Uses lobbying,
    lawsuits, elite
    networking/coaliti
    on-building for
    clearly-stated
    demands, often
    backed by research
    Monitors
    successes to make
    sure they are
    implemented

    Realistic politics:
    promotes minor
    reforms acceptable to
    power-holders
    Promotes domination
    by top-down
    professional advocacy
    groups
    More concerned with
    organizations status
    than the goal of their
    social movement
    Identifies more with
    powerholders than with
    grassroots
    Does not like paradigm
    shifts

    Organizer

    Rebel
    EFFECTIVE

    INEFFECTIVE

    EFFECTIVE

    INEFFECTIVE

    Protests: says no!


    to violations of
    positive American
    values
    Employs nonviolent
    direct action and
    attitude, including
    civil disobedience
    Targets powerholders and
    institutions
    Puts problems &
    policies in public
    spotlight
    Uses strategy as
    well as tactics
    Does work that is
    courageous,
    exciting, risky
    Shows in behavior
    the moral
    superiority of
    movement values

    Promotes antileadership, antiorganization rules and


    structure
    Attached to an
    identity as lonely
    voice on societys
    fringe
    Uses tactics without
    realistic strategy
    Has victim attitude,
    behavior: angry,
    judgmental, dogmatic
    Uses rhetoric of selfrighteousness,
    absolute truth, moral
    superiority
    Can be strident:
    personal upset more
    important than
    movements needs

    Believes in people
    power: builds massbased grassroots
    groups, networks
    Nurtures growth of
    natural leaders
    Chooses strategies
    for long-term
    movement
    development rather
    than focusing only
    on immediate
    demands
    Uses training to build
    skills, democratize
    decisions, diversify
    and broaden
    organization and
    coalitions
    Promotes alternatives
    and paradigm shifts

    Has tunnel vision:


    advocates single
    approach while
    opposing those doing
    all others
    Promotes patriarchal
    leadership styles
    Promotes only minor
    reform
    Stifles emergence of
    diversity and ignores
    needs of activists
    Promotes visions of
    perfection cut off
    from practical
    political and social
    struggle

    From Bill Moyers Doing Democracy


    Training for Change www.TrainingForChange.org

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