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=== #6 Commitment to Self-Transformation ===
As we change societies, we must change from operating on the mode of individualism to community-centeredness. We must “walk our talk.” We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.

This and other environmental justice documents can be downloaded from: www.ejnet.org/ej/

==== Further Reading ====

* Alinsky, A. (1971). “Rules for Radicals” Random House.
* Ganz, M. (2010). “Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, Social Movements.” In N. Nohria & R. Khurana (Eds.), the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice (pp. 509-550). Danvers: Harvard Business School Press.
* Hahrie, H. (2014) “How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century” Oxford University Press.
* Housty, J. (2016) “You’re Not the Indian I Had in Mind” Coast. (<nowiki>https://jesshousty.com/2016/08/04/youre-not-the-indian-i-had-in-mind/</nowiki>)
* Note: This resource is not explicitly related to organizing or campaigning, and organizers wanting to embody the Jemez Principles can get a lot from reading it with their own work in mind.
* Kendall, M. (2009) “The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally” The Angry Black Woman. (<nowiki>http://theangryblackwoman.com/2009/10/01/the-dos-and-donts-of-being-a-good-ally/</nowiki>)
* McAlevey, J. (2016) “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age” Oxford University Press.
* Ray-Riek, K. (2016) “Do better + win bigger by taking on marginalisation” MobLab. (<nowiki>https://mobilisationlab.org/do-better-win-bigger-take-on-marginalisation/</nowiki>)
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