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instantkarma Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 08:58 AM
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What does a community organizer do, anyway?
Well, I know of one who's raised over $600,000,000 so far and run the most efficient and relentless political campaign in many, many, many years (if not ever).

Feel free to add anything I missed. And there's lots.
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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 09:30 AM
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1. See the excellent "Community Organizing" special newsletter issue at LINK
Edited on Sun Oct-19-08 09:32 AM by ProgressiveEconomist
http://www.prrac.org/full_text.php?text_id=964&item_id=8814&newsletter_id=0&header=Community+Organizing .

It has a brief history of community organizing, links to its major practitioners today (including ACORN), and a link to the archives of email discussion group COMM-ORG, all in just three pages.
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