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These initial lessons form the building blocks of progressive lessons in values , fitness , leadership , and officership . As a small group of women working to highlight these candidacies write in a recent appeal ( from which I drew most of the info in this post ) , " We're not just building grassroots political action , we're building grassfires of progressive activism that can spread across South Dakota and our whole country . They suggest that gender equality advocates will have to challenge governments who fund religious schools or impose religious practice and education , while defending individuals and women 's organizations against attacks by fundamentalists.7 Similarly , Catholics for a Free Choice are leading a major campaign to change the Roman Catholic church 's status at the UN from its current almost " state " ranking , to the status of a non-governmental organization in order to radically weaken its voice and political power at the UN ( power that has been particularly undermining to the rights of women and girls ) .8 On the other hand , like in other areas of gender equality work , an insider-outsider approach is recommended whereby gender equality advocates are building alliances with progressive religious organizations , and interpreting religious texts from feminist perspectives . Because both U.S. economic and military strategies are global , it is also critical that we build alliances with progressive forces in those nations who are the object of both new world order programs and their military counterpart . Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul , which received the Firecracker Alternative book Award for Nonfiction in 1996 , and Trans Liberation : Beyond Pink or Blue is a collection of essays that argues for the acceptance of all trans people for building coalitions between progressive political groups .