Family Activism Book

Family Activism:
Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends
by Roberto Vargas
Berrett-Koehler, $17.95 paper (254p) ISBN 9781576754801

In Family Activism, Roberto Vargas explains how we can be and inspire the change we design in the world beginning with our closest relationships. We can foster familia—close, loving connections with relatives and friends—and together develop the skills and attitudes necessary to tackle broader problems in our community, nation and the world. Using personal life stories Vargas inspires and presents tools to help readers advance the empowerment and change required to better their own families and our society.

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Family Activism - Key Principles and Tools

The book provides a wide range of inspiring explanations and illlustrations of the Familia Approach.  I have featured key elements here on my website.

• Guiding Principles
• Guiding Commitments
• Vargas Tools and Practices
• Connecting with Purpose (a personal development exercise to supplement the book)
  

Praises for Family Activism

Roberto Vargas provides us with important facilitation tools and insights that we can all use to create more caring, compassionate, and engaged families and communities.
--Danny Glover, activist and actor.

Finally a champion for family activism and love! With Family Activism, Roberto Vargas provides us tools for fostering the caring spirit, power and action orientation that our families need to support each other and create healthier communities.
- Barbara Marquez, Director, The Family Power Project

You want to contribute to positive change; Roberto Vargas suggests we each start by practicing the arts of mutual love and caring within our own family. With deep love and profound insight, he shares his own life stories to tell us how. This book will change your life. Read it and share it with those you love.
— David Korten, author, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community and co-founder and board chair, YES! Magazine.

His thoughtful and user friendly handbook, "Family Activism." will save lives and help families to know true "family values,” which start with love and support at home, and spread to community involvement and social change.
-- Don Hazen, Executive Editor, AlterNet