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How Do We Keep Obama's Youth Mobilized?
Barack Obama's campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. The American Prospect asked Sally Kohn, director of the Movement Vision Lab, and Kevin Simowitz, a Generation Change Fellow, to suggest one way of incorporating these youth into the progressive movement. Read More>
Realizing the Promise: The Meaning of This Moment
Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change, reflects on the meaning of this historic election. Read More>
Announcing CCC's Official Election Day Blog
CCC launches its official Election Day Blog called Community Values Vote. On November 4th, tune in for up-to-the-minute stories on new voters, voter suppression, and Election Day trends from grassroots organizations across the country. Community Values Vote is THE alternative to the talking heads. Read More>
Are You Prepared For Election Day?
November 4th is right around the corner. Make sure you are prepared for Election Day with these tools. And fight voter suppression using the latest mobile technology! Read More>
Yes, We Should All Vote For Change
We should all vote for change during this year's elections, but let's remember that it is we that are the primary movers of change in our country. Read More>
Canaries, Coalmines, And Our Shared Fate
As the country’s attention is transfixed on the machinations of Congress and the Bush Administration to secure agreement on a bailout deal, I’ve been thinking about what this crisis teaches us and how we should respond. Here are my top four takeaways. Read More>
New Progressive Voices: Values and Policies for the 21st Century
Today is the official release of New Progressive Voices: Values and Policies for the 21st Century. A project of the Progressive Ideas Netowrk, a coalition of think tanks and activist organizations, the report proposes bold and transformational ideas for change in American society. Take a look at some of these ideas. Read More>
Organizing Principles
Experience. In the 2008 presidential election, it’s been a campaign slogan, a debating point and a subject of endless column inches and talk show hours. John McCain and Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin — whose life experiences offer the best preparation for the presidency and vice presidency? Does it help to be a naval aviator? A community organizer? A senator? A small-town mayor? Does one trump another? To answer those questions, the Op-Ed page asked people whose résumés overlap with the candidates’ to explain how the qualities they’ve needed to draw on for their jobs and their lives would come in handy in the White House. Read More>
Generation Change
There is a surge in people interested in pursuing long-term careers in community organizing in poor and marginalized communities. Generation Change, a program of the Center for Community Change, is dedicating to recruiting and training new community organizers. Read More>
Defending Community Organizing
An American tradition becomes a political football. Read More>
