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“We can organize around an issue that people feel very deeply about and build the political power to actually make a difference.” Wenonah Hauter Food & Water Watch Founder and Executive Director
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How to Win an Unwinnable Fight
We Know People Power Is the Key to Change
Food & Water Watch’s call for a ban is representative of all our work. We demand what we know we need, not just what people say is politically possible. Then, we build a strategy to make it happen. That strategy is based entirely around building people power; by mobilizing a lot of people toward a single political goal, usually by pressuring a decisionmaker.
Y OUR STEPS TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
We build a strategy to make it happen
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Photos: Left page, Jessica Riehl; Right page, Simon Russell Photography
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