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Community Organizing: The New Fad?
On April 10, the New York Times featured community organizing in its Fashion & Style section. Sally Kohn, Director of the Movement Vision Lab and Senior Strategist with the Center sits with Marshall Ganz, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to talk about the Obama "movement" and the future of community organizing. Watch the GritTV segment here.
from GritTv.org
Community organizing has become "cool," at least according to the New York Times, but will the Obama movement survive and flourish after his electoral victory? Will grassroots activism and organizing expand? Is the movement a field of wild flowers or a controlled garden?
Sally Kohn, Director of the Movement Vision Lab and Senior Strategist at the Center for Community Change and Marshall Ganz, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government discuss lessons for organizers from the Obama campaign as well as the challenges and opportunities grassroots activists face when a candidate advocating "change we believe in" gets elected.
And read Sally's article about the relationship between grassroots communities and President Obama's administration at the Movement Vision Lab
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