This column was written by Peter Dreier. Before Karen Bass was elected Speaker of the California Assembly--the second-most-powerful job in the nation's largest state, with over 36 million people--she ...

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In Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, he rebuked "those who are preparing to divide us," and famously declared, "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; ...

Si Kahn’s latest book, Creative Community Organizing, is a reflective collection of stories and songs from Kahn’s long and venerable history as a community organizer. He tells riveting tales from his ...

Barack Obama often says that the best education he got wasn’t at Harvard but on the streets of the South Side of Chicago, where he worked as a community organizer for three years. His formative ...

Ask not what you can do for your country, said Errol Louis in the New York Daily News, unless you want Republicans making fun of you. In an ugly display of ignorance last week, speaker after speaker ...

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The presidential race has made the nature and role of community organizing and civic engagement a central topic of public discourse. During the campaign, some people have suggested that community ...

It’s only in the past year of my life that I’ve become comfortable calling myself someone who “organizes.” Through the influence of the groups I’ve been proximate to and part of, my life’s operating ...

Building community power and advancing a Third Reconstruction requires a combination of a clear vision coupled with a commitment to deep relational organizing. Hard-won victories for freedom and ...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a war hero turned political leader, has traveled a familiar journey in pursuit of the White House. But his Democratic counterpart, in vaulting from the ...