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How Ordinary People Engineer Extraordinary Change: A Blueprint for Social Movements
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Change rarely happens overnight-it's engineered. How Ordinary People Engineer Extraordinary Change is a field-tested playbook for turning outrage into outcomes. Drawing on history, research, and hard-won lessons from successful campaigns, Abhay Singh maps a five-phase path from the first lonely conversations to lasting policy and culture shifts.
Inside you'll learn how to:
Work the Five Phases: Plant Seeds → Spark → Ride the Tiger → Showdown → Win the Peace-with checklists for each stage.
Craft winnable demands that move decision-makers (and avoid the nice but vague trap).
Anticipate the counter-moves-lawfare, divide-and-conquer, astroturfing, disinformation-and answer them without losing momentum.
Use nonviolence strategically (what the data actually shows about success rates and mass participation).
Build resilient organizations so a win doesn't unravel the morning after.
Protect people and information with a practical digital-security starter pack.
Measure movement health with a quick diagnostic you can revisit as your campaign grows.
You'll also find global and Indigenous case snapshots, a When Movements Fail reality check (and how to recover), and a one-page start this month plan to move from ideas to action.
Whether you're organizing a campus group, a neighborhood coalition, or a national campaign, this book gives you the clarity, tools, and courage to do the work that changes what once felt permanent.
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