Chapter 1

Figure 1.1: Seemingly Impossible Problems and Some Viable Solutions

Chapter 2

Figure 2.1: Good Responses to Conflict Situations

Chapter 3

A Wall of Opposition

Figure 3.1: Approximate Distribution of Wealth in the United States, 1989

Figure 3.2: Various Perspectives on the Extent of One’s Responsibility to Others

Chapter 4

Figure 4.1: The Struggle to Create a Good Society

Figure 4.2: Progressive Behavior and Attitudes

Figure 4.3: Essential Components of an Effective Strategy

Chapter 5

Figure 5.1: Leadership Roles in Each Stage of Transformation

Figure 5.2: A Democratically Structured Movement for Progressive Transformation

Figure 5.3: Some Conditions and Events that May Trigger Political or Social Upheaval

Figure 5.4: Representations of Societal Change Over Time

Chapter 6

Figure 6.1: A Typical Agenda for a Study Group Meeting

Figure 6.2: A Possible Study Group Schedule

Figure 6.3: Some Progressive National Organizations with Local Offices, Chapters, or Affiliates

Figure 6.4: A Typical Agenda for a Workshop Class — Canvassing

Figure 6.5: A Vernal Student’s Typical Week

Figure 6.6: Laura’s Week — Representative of Vernal Students During the Second Quarter

Figure 6.7: Rough Guesstimates of the Age Distribution of Vernal Students

Figure 6.8: A Possible Vernal Geographical Structure

Figure 6.9: A Possible Vernal Decision-Making Structure

Figure 6.10: Summary of Assumed Vernal Expenses

Figure 6.11: A Typical Distribution of Tuition in Phases 1 and 3

Figure 6.12: Summary of Vernal Project Characteristics and Finances

Figure 6.13: Vernal Project Projected Net Income

Chapter 7

Figure 7.1: Typical Careers of Vernal Activists

Figure 7.2: The Rate Vernal Graduates Would Become Less Active

Figure 7.3: The Number of Vernal Students and Very Active Vernal Graduates — Baseline Scenario

Figure 7.4: Some General Methods for Changing Society

Figure 7.5: Characteristics of Some Typical Social Change Tactics

Figure 7.6: Levels of Activist Success

Figure 7.7: Overcoming Emotional and Cultural Obstacles

Figure 7.8: A Possible Distribution of Vernal Graduates, Steadfast Activists, and Progressive Advocates

Figure 7.9: A Large Progressive Movement with Vernal Graduates and Other Steadfast Activists Constituting the Base

Chapter 9

Figure 9.1: Typical Steps in the Adoption of an Innovation

Figure 9.2: Typical Adoption Rate of Innovations

Figure 9.3: Activists’ Dilemma: Success Breeds Success, Failure Breeds Failure

Figure 9.4: A Possible Scenario for Transformation of Society

Figure 9.5: A Typical Failing Scenario Without the Vernal Project

Chapter 10

Figure 10.1: Summary of Vernal Phases

Figure 10.2: Vernal Project Timeline

Appendix B

Figure B.1: Possible Arrangements of Classes in Vernal Workshops

Figure B.2: Possible Daily Schedule at Vernal Session Workshops

Figure B.3: Typical Time Students Might Devote to the Vernal Program by Week

Figure B.4: Typical Time Students Might Devote to the Vernal Program by Week (bar chart)

Figure B.5: Typical Percent of Total Time Students Might Devote to Different Parts of the Vernal Program

Figure B.6: Typical Vernal Team Calendar

Figure B.7: Possible Staffing for Two Contiguous Ten-Day Workshops

Figure B.8: Examples of Tuition Distributions that Produce Average Income of $3,600 from Each Student

Figure B.9: Examples of Tuition Distributions that Produce Average Income of $2,400 from Each Student

Figure B.10: Map of Possible Vernal Regions and Centers

Figure B.11: Possible Vernal Regions, Vernal Centers, and their Associated Population 258–260

Figure B.12: Distant MSAs Associated with Vernal Centers

Figure B.13: Possible Number of Vernal Sessions Beginning Each Year by Region and Center

Figure B.14: Possible Replication of Vernal Centers

Figure B.15: Possible Number of Vernal Sessions Beginning Each Year by Vernal Region

Figure B.16: Possible Number of Vernal Team Staffmembers Needed Each Year in Each Vernal Region

Figure B.17: Possible Number of Regional Administrators Needed Each Year in Each Vernal Region

Figure B.18: Possible Total Number of Vernal Staffmembers Needed Each Year

Appendix C

Figure C.1: Very Active Graduates in Each Year, All Regions — Baseline Scenario 270–271

Figure C.2: Very Active Graduates in Each Year, All Regions — Optimistic Scenario 270–271

Figure C.3: Summary of the Number of Vernal Activists

Figure C.4: Estimate of the Number of Activists Working for Fundamental Progressive Change, Now and in Vernal Phase 3

Figure C.5: Estimate of Monetary Contributions Made by Additional Progressive Advocates in Vernal Year 40

Figure C.6: Typical Population in Each Ten-Year Age Cohort

Figure C.7: Three Categories of People Based on the Amount that They are Affected by Progressive Social Change Movements

Figure C.8: The Assumed Influence of Progressive Social Change Movements over Time by Age Cohorts 280–281

Figure C.9: Assumed Percent of Those Strongly Affected by Social Change Movements over Time by Age Cohort

Figure C.10: Assumed Percent of the Public Affected by Progressive Social Change Movements by Year 21

Figure C.11: Assumed Percent of the Public Affected by Progressive Social Change Movements by Year 41

Figure C.12: Assumed Percent of the Public Affected by Progressive Social Change Movements by Year 61

Figure C.13: Assumed Percent of the Public Affected by Progressive Social Change Movements by Year 81