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A Lesson for Barack Obama From the Harold Washington Playbook

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Auto Bailout, Wall Street, Reproductive Rights, Election Night 2009, Harold Washington, Community Organizing, China, Barack Obama, New Jersey Governor's Race, Virginia Governor's Race, South Side of Chicago, Health Care Reform, Chicago News
Rebecca Sive

Chicago Mayor Harold Washington never did move away from his people; he stuck with them; he delivered for them. The result: They stuck with him.

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Obama Campaign Arm Silent On Maine's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

AMERICAblog Gay | Joe Sudbay | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Parenting, Maine Senate, Gay Adoption, Maine, Marriage Equality, John Baldacci, Marriage, Organize for America, Question 1, Same Sex Marriage, Community Organizing, Ofa, Ofa Message, Families, Maine House, Gay Marriage, Family, Politics News

Funny thing (or not), OFA forgot to tell Mainers what issues are on the ballot and how to vote on those issues. For example, there's no mention of Que...

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350 Global Day of Action: A New Bright Line for Digital Organizing

Michael Silberman | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: 350.Org Day of Action, Climate Change, 350.Org, Community Organizing, Online Organizing, 350 Campaign, International, Green News
Michael Silberman

Good organizers embody the idea that nothing can be achieved alone -- so they naturally inspire others to join the effort and even encourage others to take ownership of various components.

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The Payer Mayor: Has Mike Bloomberg Bought Himself Another Term?

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Part Lines, Finance, Mayor, Liberals, Thompson, 9/11, Mike Bloomberg, Candidates, Community Organizing, Election, New York, New York News
Nelson Montana

Even if there wasn't one thin dime spent in advertising, in a straight up comparison, Bloomberg is clearly the better man than Thompson.

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It's Wednesday Night, What Meeting Am I in?

Chantal Unfug | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Government, Parks and Recreation, Community Organizing, Denver Parks, La Alma Neighborhood Denver, Denver Public Libraries, Public Libraries, Denver Public Schools, Byers Library, Outdoor Exercise, Outdoors, Denver News
Chantal Unfug

At the discussion about the Byers Library, or the session about Lake Middle School, the anger was the same, the distrust of the bureaucracy was the same, and the total exasperation was the same.

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Obama's Free Space Moment

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, American Politics, Community Organizing, 2008 Election Anniversary, Inside Obama's Brain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sasha Abramsky

Yes, Obama's popularity ratings have fallen, and some have taken that as a sign of the administration's failure. But what is the point of governing solely to remain popular?

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Growing Up In Detroit: Community Organizing With Mostaccioli

Nancy Cronk | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Growing Up, Large Families, Uaw, Unemployment, Chrysler, Economy, Detroit, Gm, Community Organizing, Italian Food, Ford, Unions, Living News
Nancy Cronk

Raising a big family was tough for my parents. Feeding eleven people on an auto-workers income meant everything my parents did required effort and creativity.

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ACORN: A Case of Selective Prosecution

David Jones | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Barack Obama Community Organizing, Community Organizing, Education Funding, Acorn Employees, Acorn Scandal, Acorn New York City, Politics News
David Jones

While the guerrilla theater video made for interesting TV, it does not accurately portray the work ACORN does. ACORN has a done a tremendous amount of good.

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Acorn Loses Bank Of America As Corporate Partner

Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Ethics Training, Foreclosure-Prevention, Banks, Acorn Housing, Lending, Wells Fargo, Michael Shea, Undercover Tapes, Tax Evasion, Census, Bank of America, Prostitution, Acorn, Foreclosure, Community Organizing, Politics News

Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, B...

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Care About the Earth? Four Simple Ways to Take Action

Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Congress, Charity, Social Life, Social Networking, Nonprofits, Green, Earth, Community, Green Living, Gandhi, Planet, Tree Planting, Change, Constituents, Activism, Letter Writing, Climate Crossroads, Party, Climate Week Nyc, Environment, Beach Cleanup, Community Organizing, Fundraising, Editors, Sierra Club, Elected Officials, Environmental Activism, Green News
Avital Binshtock

It's officially Climate Week. In case you feel discouraged that you can't do enough, remember Gandhi's words: "Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

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Time to Get Real About the ACORN "Controversy"--and Republican Double Standards

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Aig, Mark Sanford, Acorn, John Ensign, Voter Registration, Boeing, Blackwater, Mickey Mouse, Breaking News, Citicorp, Community Organizing, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Haliburton, David Vitter, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.

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Resilience Takes Form -- A Handbook for Transition

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Uk, Self Help, Urban Planning, Transition-Towns, Sustainability, Community Organizing, Green Living, Rob Hopkins, Totnes, Green News
Cameron Sinclair

Totnes, a sleepy seaside town in the West of England, has become the accidental epicenter of a quiet revolution.

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Shall We Brunch? Ft. Collins Politics in Action

Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ft. Collins, Governor Ritter, Politics, Local Politics, Betsy Markey, Community Organizing, Colorado, Obama, Dan Shaner, Barack Obama, Sharon Glassman, Barackfast, Denver News
Sharon Glassman

At Dan Shaner's Sunday brunches for change, you'll get a snapshot of a movement, bluegrass, and a tasty homemade meal. That's politics in northern Colorado.

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Peeling Away the "Obama Phenomenon": An Interview with Paul Street

Christian Avard | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Values, President Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Obama, Media, Progressive Politics, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Barack Obama 2008, Progressive, Martin Luther King, David Axelrod, John Edwards, Racism, Community Organizing, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Obama Iraq, Politics News
Christian Avard

Street goes beyond the Obama phenomenon and investigates who Obama is and what he's all about in Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics.

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This 9/11, Urban Communities Remember and Serve

Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins. Green the Block, Community Service, Reverend Yearwood, Rev.Lennox Yearwood, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Community Organizing, Green News
Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

To see people from all walks of life take up service as a way to remember the tragedy of 9/11 is beauty from ashes. It is also part of the solution that will put our nation on the road to recovery, permanently.

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Cleaning Some of the Fox Off of Van Jones

David Roberts | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Communism, Swiftboating, Fox News, Community Organizing, Glenn Beck, Van Jones, Green News
David Roberts

If the conservative movement were smart it would claim Van Jones as one if its own. But then, it's not smart. It's Glenn Beck.

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Congo: Midwives Transform Trash Into Hope

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Humanitarian, Drc, Mountain Gorilla, Midwives, Grassroots, Conflict Zone, War, United Nations, Georgianne Nienaber, Congo, Secretray of State, Clinic, Wise Women, Virunga Park, Aprosaf, IDP Camps, Womens Issues, Homeless, Community Organizing, Hillary Clinton, Charcoal, Emmanuel De Merode, Refugees, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Since Secretary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo.

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A Bronx group's battle with the Yankees reminds us about real community organizing

Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Community Organizing, Bronx, Yankees, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Yankee Stadium, New York News
Miguel Guadalupe

4DSBx's mission is simple: to make sure the Yankees organization live up to promises made while garnering community support for their new stadium in the Bronx.

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Stop "Crimes Against Humanity and Geological Scandals": Give AFRICOM a Chance In Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Women, Africom, Rape, Andrea Mitchell, Goma, War, Foreign Service, Global Research, Internally Displaced Persons, Georgianne Nienaber, Media, Ngo, Media Distortions, Msnbc, Chidren, Mugunga I, Think Tanks, Embedded Journalists, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, Paul Kagame, Hillary Clinton, Office of Inspector General, State Department, Usaid, Citizen Journalists, Af, Oig, Obama, Community Organizing, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

This is going out to the end of a very long limb, but contrary to the rumblings in progressive think tanks, let's suggest that AFRICOM must be given a chance in eastern Congo.

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Bricks, Mortar, Bloomberg, Moses

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 09.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Mike Bloomberg, Campaign 2009, Atlantic Yards, Robert Moses, Community Organizing, New York, Jane Jacobs, New York News
Jarrett Murphy

When you add all that's been proposed, planned and built under this administration, it's hard to think of another figure since Moses who has presided over as significant an effort to reshape the physical city as Bloomberg has.

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Small States with Big Power

Mike Lux | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Nebraska, Iowa Citizen Action Network, Senate Finance Committee, Constitutional Convention, Iowa, Small States, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Community Organizing, South Dakota, Forward Montana, Ruralvotes, Politics News
Mike Lux

Is it fair that the key gang of six negotiating health care in the Senate Finance Committee represent less than 3% of the nation's population?

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Is Obama's Health Care Maelstrom the Birth of Millennial Politics?

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: David Bromwich, Community Organizing, Millennial Generation, Millenials, Health Care, Barack Obama, Peter Daou, Home News
Maegan Carberry

Obama introduced us to a new kind of politics. Veterans of the old guard aren't sure how to handle it while the emerging young leaders who built it haven't established enough clout to reinforce it.

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The Next Obama? Help Send Community Organizers to City Hall

Dan Cantor | Posted 08.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Working Families Party, Queens, Brooklyn, New York City Council, Community Organizing, Staten Island, New York, New York City, Election, New York News
Dan Cantor

America finally has a community organizer in the White House. What if we put a whole slate of community organizers in City Hall in New York?

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Community Organizing for Peace

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Community Organizing, J-Street, Brit Tzedek, Middle East Peace, World News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

Having spent the past decade advocating in different congressional districts for peace in the Middle East, I have found a similar response: elected officials act when they hear from their constituents.

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First Lady Announces Stimulus Package For Health Clinics

AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: First Lady, Michelle Obama, Women's Health, Public Health, Community Organizing, Community Health Clinic Obama, Men's Health, Giving, Obesity, The Giving Life, Living News

WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama visited a community health center Monday to announce the release of $850 million in stimulus grants to he...

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