Making Policy Making Change: How Communities Are Taking Law into Their Own Hands

Throughout the country, activists are making change and getting it in writing. Read how community groups have successfully developed and promoted more than 1,000 local policies that have:

• limited alcohol and tobacco billboards and liquor stores in low-income communities
• won higher wages and more rights for workers under public contract
• held corporations accountable for environmental damage
• brought youth into the policy-setting process

By using case studies that focus on community organizi...