Description: While challenging our car-centric systems can feel daunting for anyone who wants change, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight, transportation activist Carter Lavin provides a roadmap for transforming passion into political power.
Whether your dream is protected bike lanes, better bus service, or expanded high-speed rail, this book provides transportation-specific strategies for organizing for change. It draws upon advice from advocates across the United States and Lavin's own experience with over 100 campaigns. Action points at the end of each chapter enable readers to move from brainstorming into concrete action. Accessible and inspirational, this book will help people who are starting out, as well as experienced advocates plan, launch, and lead any transportation-related campaign.Review Quotes: "A truly useful handbook for those who want to make change. It will be of great use to those working on transportation--but also for anyone trying to improve any part of our society. Politics isn't magic; it's work, and this will show you how to get it done most effectively."-----Bill McKibben, author of 'Here Comes the Sun'