• Important: Required Technical Details
• In prepation: Suggested readings

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In preparation, we ask that you consider our Recommended Readings list. You will notice that texts are divided by topic, with at least one online resource posted for each primary topic. If your time is limited, we suggest that you begin with the following:

1) Moyer, Bill; McAllister, JoAnn; Finley, Mary Lou; and Steven Soifer (2001) Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers

2) -. The Movement Action Plan. Abstracted from The Practical Strategist: Movement Action Plan (MAP): Strategic Theories for Evaluating, Planning and Conducting Social Movements (1990) Moyer, Bill. San Francisco: Social Movement Empowerment Project, 12 December 2006: http://nonviolencehelp.tripod.com/downloads/practical_strategist.pdf

3) Moyer, Bill. The Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements. Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. 21 November 2006: http://paceebene.org/pace/the-eight-stages-of-successful-social-movements

4) Gerlach, Luther P. (1999) The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents. In: Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties, Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson, eds. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield. 1 November 2006: http://192.5.14.110/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/MR1382.ch9.pdf

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Again, thank you for your interest, and welcome to EcoRes. We look forward to sharing this experience with you.

Sincerely,

Mary Batson-Leyser, MA
E-Conference Moderator

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Acad. Prof. Gennady Polikarpov
E-Conference Scientific Advisor

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