I’m angry and I’m frustrated. And perhaps like me, you don’t recognize the country you live in anymore. It’s not just the rabid partisan politics or the dour national mood driven by our deepening recession; it’s simply the lack of compassion for our disadvantaged compatriots. It’s the drumbeat of ideological dogma that focuses more on spending cuts than the...
In recent weeks, the Center for Community Change has been testing our new vision for “scale with soul,” attempting to reach thousands of Americans who have not been reached before; urging organizers and active leaders to reach beyond their current base to build a powerful, authentic, bottom-up movement for social change. With the American dream itself under assault, we are...
Among the hundreds of people at a rally last week in Charlotte, N.C., calling on Congress to create more jobs to get our economy going again were two sisters and their brother who all have had to move back in with their parents because they cannot find jobs. Read what the siblings have to say: Destiny Jackson, 20: Destiny is a single mom with a 3-year-old son. She’s taking paralegal...
Great changes in our history have always come through mass pressure from outside combined with receptive leadership in positions of power. President Obama, himself once a community organizer, is fond of telling a very poignant story that demonstrates this point. It is the story of A. Philip Randolph coming to the White House to meet with President Franklin Roosevelt to push for an expansion...
