Bottom-up ways to exercise power

As Joan Minieri and Paul Gestos say in their book, there are four bottom-up ways to exercise power in order to achieve social change: Electoral organizing, Labor organizing, Movement-building and Mass mobilizing. The main characteristics of each way are:

1) Organizations engage in electoral organizing to build political power by doing partisan work and electing candidates for office.

3) Labor organizing describes the strategy to bring together unorganized workers to achieve better working conditions.

4) When many organizations also see themselves as part of a broader social movement that seeks change beyond the direct self-interest of any group, then we call it movement-building.

5) Mass mobilizing refers to the events where large numbers of people move into action, usually to oppose something. Although there is some organizational structure behind the action, most of the people who come out into the streets are no connected to any specific organization; rather, the problem or issue moves them to action.

According to this and keeping in mind we live in a world where political disaffection prevails, labor groups are falling and movement-building is in crisis, what  kind of mobilizations can we expect from anger citizens?

We already know the answer, but what we ignore is that by being always on the side of mass mobilizing and looking down on the other forms to exercise power, what we will likely get is the growth of the NIMBY Syndrome. Sometimes it worth distinguishing between use and abuse, and insinuating that mass mobilizing is the only way possible to reach power is not just an abuse, but also a dangerous strategy. If we want a productive, positive and condstructive society mass mobilizing must be a way, but not the only one. Now ask yourself: what do you do to stress other bottom-up ways to exercise power?