ABOUT GRASSROOTS GROUNDSWELL
Grassroots Groundswell is an online journal of local news, views and information written by and for North Plainfielders.
EDITORIAL POLICY
Editorial Policy – recently revised: Write anything you want, as long as you provide evidence (documents or written, verifiable accounts of your personal experiences) to back up your claims and arguments. Unfounded, undocumented allegations will not be published. Pretty much everything else will be published.
STAFF CONTACTS
Blog Editors: Hal Hirsch and Linda Darge- communityrights@gmail.com
NPCCR Co-Chair: Frank D’Amore-frankdsr@comcast.net
CONTRIBUTORS
Barbara Habeeb, Jerry Jacala, Norman E. Ortega, Mark Williams, Frank N. D’Amore, Antoinette Rinehart, Gary Lewis, Mike Castro, Jenny Flynn, Nathan Rudy, Hal Hirsch, Josh Levine, Douglas Singleterry, Heather DeGeorge, Oleh Kaniuka, David Branan, Robert Gatto, Marie Kushnir, Josh Lambert, Michele Wallace Ixim, Morgan Shevett, Greg Hatala, Quanae Palmer Chambliss, Larry LaRonde, M. Emory Layne and various Little Birdies.
Add your name to the contributors’ team…send in a post!
BOROUGH COUNCIL MEMBERS
Here are the Borough Council members‘ addresses, in case you have issues you’d like to write to them about. Theoretically, they work for you!
President Frank Skip Stabile: s_stabile@yahoo.com
Frank Righetti: rocco97@hotmail.com
Robert Hitchcock: bhitchco@aol.com
Michael Giordano Jr.: mgior59203@aol.com
Douglas Singleterry: dougsingle@aol.com , dsingleterry@dhplaw.net
Mary H. Forbes: maryhforbes@excite.com
Barbara Habeeb: barhab@aol.com
RECOMMENDED READING ON COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, by Thom Hartmann
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back, by Jane Holtz Kay
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
Going Public: An Organizers Guide to Citizen Action, by Michael Gecan
Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America’s Communities, by Douglas Henton, John Melville and Kim Walesh.
Blessed Unrest, by Paul Hawken
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, by Thom Hartmann
The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution, by George Draffan (foreword by Richard Grossman)
When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, by Michael H. Shuman
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, by Bill McKibben
Feeding the Future, by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, by Dennis A. Jacobson
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs
North Plainfield Citizens for Community Rights 