Investigative reporter Miranda Spivack who is an expert in government secrecy and use of public documents has written a book about people she calls accidental activists They are regular citizens with no expertise special knowledge of leadership motivated by grief or worry for their community who figure out how to network and mobilize and drag information out of government and corporations to successfully battle City Hall. She says we all can do this. Here she is talking about one of the Local Heroes.Sometimes regular people just trying to help their families and communities are forced to become heroes. Investigative reporter Miranda Spivack has written a book about some inspiring local heroes around the country with no experience in leadership or in giving speeches or reading government documents have fought back against government secrecy and shady deals between government and business to bring about reform. The message is that you too can fight the power.