It's been years since I've read it, but I believe Todd Gitlin's book "Years of Hope, Days of Rage" (I think that's the title) might have some useful info for you. He was an early leader of that group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Gitlin Probably the biggest challenge would be to effectively re-evaluate what is effective today versus what is not. It seems that political demonstrations and street theatre are no longer as effective as they once were (and in fact might actually convince average americans to oppose whatever the protesters advocate). The real victories tend to be extremely undramatic and take years of work through legislators to accomplish. In the 70s the Democrats turned their party from "the party of the KKK" to a valid and respectable party. They were able to end US involvement in Vietnam, decriminalize pot, establish the right to vote for all adult citizens for the first time in the nation's history, pass the War Powers Act, FOIA, an end to the draft, not to mention powerful environmental legislation and tons of other stuff. All of those efforts took years of hard work for those involved, and did make a difference, though much of those steps have since been undermined by the Republican Party. All this MOO.
