As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.