Community Organizing
M.A.M
In class notes
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organizations must be strengthened by promoting issues that bring them together rather than dividing them. The initiatives of job creation both through traditional measures and by linking jobs with preservation and restoration of the environment. They must combat falling wages through union organization and legislation. Organizers should move all of these efforts into the electoral arena and elect people loyal to organizations. Strategy and the use of power are the must useful tools of an organization.
Three forms of power:
Political Power: getting something passed by an elected candidate.
Consumer Power: consisting on the ability to conduct a boycott.
Regulatory Power: ability to win in court or in a regulatory process.
strategies for good community organizing: