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Chapter
Nine, "Building and Maintaining Advocacy Coalitions",
in The Democracy Owners' Manual by
Jim Schultz explains the importance of building
coalitions. "Coalition building", he writes, "is
about bringing together organizations to work toward
a public goal. Time spent in coalitions can be the
best of times in an advocacy campaign or it can
be the worst of times." |
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Movement Rising, developed by The Advocacy
Institute in 1999, is a comprehensive strategic
analysis of the United States tobacco control movement
at that time, with recommendations on the steps
that needed to be taken to build a stronger national
movement. |
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Jump
Starting a Tobacco Control Movement
addresses critical questions on tobacco control
movement building and advocacy in the lively words,
drawn from interviews, of two of the most experienced
and successful international tobacco control advocates,
Judith MacKay and Witold Zatonski. |
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Potential
Loopholes and Drafting Issues is a
paper developed by leading tobacco control legal
counsel David Sweanor for The Advocacy Institute,
analyzing a series of proposed comprehensive national
tobacco control laws in order to identify "loopholes"
and unintended consequences. Though focused on proposed
US laws, this analysis is also informed by experiences
with major tobacco legislation in other countries,
and the efforts of tobacco industry lobbyists to
weaken such legislation. |
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Smoke
Fighting; A Smoking Control Movement Building Guide
draws upon the experience and learning of a group
of leading tobacco control advocates from around
the world drawn together by the American Cancer
Society and the UICC in 1985.
The guide focuses
on three critical questions in the building of national
tobacco control movements: 1) Who are the appropriate
and necessary participants for a national tobacco
control movement? 2) How can spontaneous informal
networks of tobacco control advocates be nurtured
and strengthened? 3) How can effective formal and
informal coalitions of organizations dedicated to
tobacco control efforts best be built and sustained? |
