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That achievement fills in the missing piece that, until now, has undermined so many efforts to energize genuine democracy.    Get Up, Stand Up details those strategies and tactics that oppressed peoples have successfully employed to gain power. We the People can unite, gain strength, wisely do battle, and wrest power away from the ruling corporate-government partnership (the \"corporatocracy\"). 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