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ACORN: They Took Our Nuts!

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Acorn, Public School, George W. Bush, Community Organizing, Mccain, Housing Crisis, Private School, 2008 Election, Civil Rights, Bush, Voter Registration Fraud, Acorn Scandal, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

No wonder the GOP is desperately trying to neuter ACORN before the group manages to mobilize some seriously pissed-off poor people.

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Barack Obama's End Game Will Be On The Ground

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barney Smith, Camp Obama, New Mexico, Al Giordano, Ohio, Joe the Plumber, Obama Fellows, Zack Exley, Community Organizing, Obama-Biden, Sean Quinn, Barack Obama, Indiana, Stephen C. Rose, North Carolina, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose If Barack Obama becomes president, it will be because of grass roots organization. The people who will make the difference on Nove...

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Making Sense of ACORN

Josh Brusin | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn Voter Registration, Swing States, Civil Rights, Voter Caging, Gop, Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Obama, Election 2008, Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, Politics News
Josh Brusin

It seems that ACORN is the GOP scapegoat this year. They tipped their hands when they labeled Obama a dastardly "community organizer" repeatedly at their convention.

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Seth Colter Walls

Neighbor To Neighbor: How Obama Targets Undecideds Block By Block

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: voteforchange.com, Community Organizing, Barack Obama, Obama Grassroots Organizing, Obama Online Organizing, Neighbor to Neighbor, Politics News

Marc Ambinder recently judged the "tech innovation" race between the Obama and McCain campaigns to be roughly equal, crediting each side with two web-...

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Pushing the Needle

Cynthia Torres | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farming, Community Organizing, Fair Trade, Politics News
Cynthia Torres

Their tattered spiral covers showed the wear and tear of being stuffed into book bags, hauled from one meeting to the next in search of people and organizations willing to work together.

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Imagine That: Community Organizing Could be the Key to Peace and Prosperity in Israel

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Social Justice, Jerusalem, Activism, Middle East, Israel-Palestine, Israel Lobby, Sarah Palin, Environmentalism, Russians, Barack Obama Israel, Community Organizing, Israel, Peace, Social Activism, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Civil Rights, Islam, Jews, NIF.Org, New Israel Fund, Politics News
Raymond Leon Roker

While Palin intended her jab to belittle Obama's experience, it in fact helped galvanize those of us who know just how critical, challenging and imperative a role community organizers play.

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What Republicans and Democrats Need To Hear Continued -- Youth At Convention Speak Out

Larry Eason | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Economic Equality, Republican Convention, 2008 Election, National Convention, Community Organizing, Economy, Politics News
Larry Eason

I've been blogging about last weekend's Equal Voice for America's Families Convention. Fifteen thousand people from low-income communities gathered in...

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Community Organizing on Skid Row Isn't So Easy

Samantha Page | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Community Organizing, Rudy Giuliani, Rnc, Community Organizer, Sarah Palin, Home News
Samantha Page

According to Palin, being "a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities." But when asked about his day-to-day, L.A. community organizer "General Jeff" quipped back: "There isn't enough paper in the world to list everything I do."

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Give Community Organizers the Credit They Deserve

Charlie Cray | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Barack Obama Community Organizing, Community Organizing Remark, Community Organizing, Politics News
Charlie Cray

A politician who calls himself an agent of change and then denigrates his opponent as a community organizer is like someone who owns five houses spitting on the carpenters who built them.

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Sarah, Meet the Culdesactivists

James Glave | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Community Organizing, Culdesactivism, Global Warming, Activism, Living News
James Glave

These community organizers are using web-based tools like wikis and blogs to plan events and make a difference in the sometimes scary and unfamiliar world that lies beyond their own front porch.

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Union President: Jesus Was A Community Organizer

ABC News | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palin Community Organizing, Jesus Community Organizer, Community Organizers, Community Organizing, Obama Community Organizer, Obama Community Organizing, Obama Community Organizers, Palin Community Organizers, Politics News

In Lebanon, Virginia, right now United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts is giving a characteristically enthusiastic introduction for Se...

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Food Choices, Fresh Food and Cities, Food Choices, Poverty, Roseland, Public Health, American Food Deserts, Food Deserts, National Food Desert Awareness Month, Grocery Stores, South Side Food Desert, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Community Organizing, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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Palin, GOP find community challenges a real hoot

Monroe Anderson | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Education, Community Organizing, John McCain, Small Towns, Chicago, Politics News
Monroe Anderson

At the expense of Barack Obama, community groups and their organizers were a running joke in St. Paul last week at the Republican National Convent...

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SAT Question for Sarah Palin (Hint: Think MLK)

Elizabeth Austin | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin, Obama King, Sarah Palin Vetting, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin Speech, Palin Rnc Speech, Palin Speech, Sarah Palin RNC Speech, Politics News
Elizabeth Austin

A community organizer is like a mayor, except ...

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Community Organizers Behind Every Great Movement

Jonah Lalas | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Sarah Palin, Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Palin Mccain, Obama, Barack Obama, Home News
Jonah Lalas

Organizers have a responsibility not only to themselves or the communities they work in, but to the greater struggle for justice. When an organizer fails, a portion of our country's progress may fail with them. To us, that's a much bigger burden than balancing the budget in Wasilla, Alaska.

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Hey Obama: Knock Off the Zen/Dukakis Stuff

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 10.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Community Organizing, Obama, Dukakis, Barack Obama, Palin, Stephanopoulos, Media News
Barry Yourgrau

Cut the cool zen smiling -- you're in a fight with people who are wrecking this country -- it's not a policy chat.

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Third Convention Attendees - What Republicans and Democrats Need To Hear

Larry Eason | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizing, Democratic National Convention, Republican Convention, Economy, Politics News
Larry Eason

Today 15,000 low-income families gathered in Los Angeles, Birmingham and Chicago to discuss and ratify a platform for working families and to kick off...

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Third Convention Yields Ambitious National Family Platform -- Attendees Discuss

Larry Eason | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Working Families, Democratic National Convention, Republican Convention, Economy, Politics News
Larry Eason

Low income families from across the country came together to discuss and ratify a National Family Platform. In this short video, attendees share about the process.

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Working Families Hold Own Convention - Adopt Comprehensive Plaftform

Larry Eason | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizing, Working Families, Economy, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Larry Eason

Linked via satellite, and using instant, touch-pad voting, working families in Los Angeles, Birmingham and Chicago voted to adopt a comprehensive plat...

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Sarah Palin Dissed John and Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, the Original George W. and the Rest of the Founding Fathers!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Speech, Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Sarah Palin Speech Reactions, Sarah Palin Speech Rnc, Sarah Palin Reaction, Palin Community Organizing, Palin Community Organizers, Sarah Palin Community Organizers, Politics News
Bonnie Fuller

The American Revolution began with a whole lot of grassroots community organizing done by dedicated private individuals focused on trying to build a better political system.

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Trashing Democracy

Harry C. Boyte | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Palin Community Organizing, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Community Organizers, Palin Community Organizers, Sarah Palin Speech, Sarah Palin Speech Reactions, Sarah Palin Speech Rnc, Palin Speech, Politics News
Harry C. Boyte

Community organizers are those who teach the arts of combining -- how to work together across differences of religion, ethnicity and partisan background.

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What Kind of Fall is This Going to Be?

David Murray | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs, Sarah Palin Speech, Steve Bartman, Palin Attacks, Cubs Playoff Run, Joe Biden, Cubs Bartman, Mccain Speech, Chicago Cubs, Palin Community Organizing, Barack Obama, 2003 Cubs, Cubs Playoffs, Obama Biden Debates, Sarah Palin, Community Organizing, Chicago News
David Murray

Wednesday night after Sarah Palin's speech, I went to bed with a pit in my stomach that reminded me not of November, 2004, but rather October, 2003.

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Sarah Palin as George Bush

Janet Ritz | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Politics News, Hurricane Ike, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Dick Cheney, Conservative Elitism, Politics, Sarah Palin, Sexism, Environment, Green News, Racism, Community Organizing, Matthew Scully, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin Reaction, Jack Abramoff, The Environmentalist, John McCain, Green, Politics News
Janet Ritz

That's the question I want to ask: Sarah, who would you pick as your vice president?

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Sarah Palin Would Hate Rosa Parks

Van Jones | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizing, Palin Community Organizing, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Van Jones

How can any candidate or party that hopes to lead America take such joy in putting down American institutions -- like grassroots democracy and its hard-working stewards?

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Truly a Bridge to Nowhere

Rob McKay | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizer, Barack Obama Community Organizer, Obama Community Organizer, Community Organizing, Sarah Palin Speech, Barack Obama, Politics News
Rob McKay

How dare the Republicans look down their noses at Obama and thousands of other organizers who put community, and yes, country first by trying to make life a little bit better for other people.

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