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Community development relies on policies, resources, and recognition that were won by decades of organizing—and organizing remains essential to face new threats, preserve existing wins, and continue to fight back against the big lie that the way things are is inevitable.
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How State Coalitions Are Advancing Community Ownership of Housing
In recent years, housing coalitions promoting community land trusts and real estate cooperatives have formed in multiple cities and states—and they are achieving results. Nonetheless, a lot of work is needed to achieve the policy changes these groups desire.
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North to Alaska—Where Organizers Roam
Very enlightening : I came across an article today on the Minnesota Independent, an online news source, titled Palin’s Maligning Aside, Alaska’s Rife with Community Organizers. Among other tidbits, we […]
In Praise of Faith-Based Community Organizing
Government has frequently turned to the voluntary religious sector to provide social services. The question is how and why it’s done: to entice religious conversion, impose sectarian values, to win conservative votes? Or to meet human needs?
Did the GOP Attack on Community Organizing Backfire?
In a column on September 14, titled “Community Organizing Changed Fishery,” John Corrigan, the fishing writer for the Concord Monitor, explained that “anybody who has caught a fish at Sewalls […]
Service Forum: McCain’s Moment of Truthiness
Just finished watching ServiceNation’s presidential forum on national service, and I’m here to give credit where it’s due: Judy Woodruff asked John McCain to explain his running-mate’s disparaging taunts about […]
Making Lemonade
Here’s a great example of the law of unintended consequences: The McCain campaign’s sour, distortive targeting of community organizing in an attempt to marginalize Barack Obama as “un-American” — or […]
McCain’s Service Problems
I hope the moderators press McCain on his campaign’s assault on community organizing and how it jibes with the convention’s theme of “service.”
GOP: Organize This!
I kind of knew it before, but watching John McCain’s speech as I write, it’s easy to see how the GOP VP pick Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday was planned […]
What Palin Could Have Said…
The pushback from around the country is bracing. No sooner did NHI president John Atlas post on Rooflines, setting the record straight on community organizing, we started to hear from […]
Organizing a Counterattack
As John Atlas has pointed out, the GOP strategy on Wednesday night was to have vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani try to […]
GOP Credo: Less Government, No Community Organizing?
Ronald Reagan famously said the government is the problem, not the solution, and touted the importance of our civil society. Now we hear the party of Reagan touting government experience […]
Alinsky’s Organizing Writ Large
I came across a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe written by L. David Alinsky, son of community-organizing pioneer Saul Alinsky. It’s worth reading what the son has […]
Obama’s Nomination: Just in Time For Labor Day
Bill Clinton stepped up the other night and did what he needed to do if the Dems want to win this election: he threw down for Barack Obama and said […]