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Community organizing in the public arena

Community organizing in the public arena. A role for citizens and other stakeholders. Government. Citizens. Business. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.” Benjamin Franklin one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Community organizing in the public arena

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  1. Community organizing in the public arena A role for citizensand other stakeholders

  2. Government Citizens Business

  3. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.” Benjamin Franklin one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

  4. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote

  5. ...and community organizers add… Organizing is the arms of the lamb

  6. What is Community Organizing? • The purpose of community organizing is to actively engage large numbers of people to powerfully solve neighborhood and city-wide problems. Community organizing involves building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems and visions they share and the solutions to those problems and visions that they desire. • Community organizing builds long-term, democratically controlled organizations capable of solving numerous problems important to the organization’s membership and allies. • Community organizing can be done in a large number of contexts and with a variety of constituents: individual members, organization of organizations, neighborhood or issue based, with religious congregations and/or secular groups, tenants, seniors, youth, etc.

  7. Steps in Community Organizing • a. Systematically listening to residents and citizens in order to select and prioritize problems and visions, (Personal interviews, surveys, initial meetings) • b. Research to identify potential solutions, and • c. Act to solve these problems and achieve these visions through self-help approaches and/or engaging key government and other institutions through negotiation, using confrontation and pressure when necessary. • d. Build powerful organization of citizens group

  8. ECON definition • Community organizing is a democratically-governed long-term process by which people are brought together to act in their common self-interest to identify community problems and solutions, and to take action by engaging existing power structures to make those solutions a reality.

  9. What is community organizing? A form of LEADERSHIP that enables a CONSTITUENCY to create an ORGANIZATION that turns its RESOURCES into the POWER to make CHANGE.

  10. Stories

  11. SHELL CAMPAIGNin RadvanneighborhoodofBanska Bystrica

  12. SHELL CAMPAIGNin RadvanneighborhoodofBanska Bystrica

  13. Pre and Post Election Activities in Banska Bystrica

  14. CitizensAgenda

  15. Get out the Vote

  16. Candidate Forums

  17. Holding officials accountable

  18. Sidewalk campaign Listening

  19. Research

  20. Action

  21. Celebration

  22. Build Organization

  23. EuropeanCommunityOrganizingNetwork

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