Grassroots Leadership
Welcome to AMSA's Grassroots Leadership team. This team consists of
leadership representing the following areas surrounding Grassroots
Leadership:
Get Involved
Activism Toolbox: Your Guide to Grassroots Action
Here you will find comprehensive resources for organizing and executing
a strategic campaign. These documents provide step-by-step guides to
organizing around an issue, creating influential and effective lobbying
materials, and getting the message out to those who will effect change.
Below you will find the tactics you will need, whether you are
targeting the media, Congress, state legislators, or even fellow
medical students.
Additional Resources
AIDS Activism
Access to Essential Medicine
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)
UAEM works with student and faculty groups across the US, Europe and
Canada to coordinate efforts to improve the research, licensing and
patenting decisions of universities. They assemble teams of experts in
matters of intellectual property, technology transfer, pharmaceutical
R&D, and healthcare delivery in resource-poor settings, in order to
construct creative new approaches to improving the development and
delivery of public health goods. If your school doesn't have a UAEM
committee, learn how to form one and get your university on board!
- Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Introduces students to the technicalities of TRIPS (Trade-Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and patent laws. Provides
overview of campaign issues and resources.
Globalization
Health and Safety at Militant Actions
Tobacco Companies
Book List
General (especially good if you're feeling burnt out)
- Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
- You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train by Howard Zinn
Our Government (and its role in controlling…just about everything)
- Deterring Development by Noam Chomsky
- Neoliberalism by Noam Chomsky
The Media
- Killing Hope by William Blum
- Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Globalization and The Big Guns (WTO, World Bank, IMF etc…)
- INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT-The World Trade Organization: Global Government For The New Millennium? by Debi Barker and Jerry Mander
- The Case Against the Global Economy-And a Turn Toward the Local
Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith