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Category: (Winter 2003/Spring 2004)
... On March 16th, State Senator Barack Obama won the right to represent the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate campaign. Jack Ryan won the Republican nomination that day, but went on to self-destruct over ...Created on 16 February 2010 -
Category: (Fall 2015)
... organizations. In the years after Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, both intentionally and uncontrollably, the practice of organizing changed in significant ways. To understand the success ...Created on 18 October 2015 -
Category: (Spring 2023)
... that led to the election of Harold Washington as mayor of Chicago in 1983—and ultimately, some say, to the election of Barack Obama as president. It is the story of the impact of the changing federal policy ...Created on 07 April 2023 -
Category: (Fall 2022)
... responsibility for precincts, door by door. I took a week off from work and volunteered in Pennsylvania for Barack Obama. But despite this, and having run national issue campaigns for People’s Action ...Created on 06 October 2022 -
Category: (Online Only Features)
... in 2013, a smiling Sweeney stood shoulder to shoulder with Stern and Stephen Lerner for pictures. President Barack Obama presenting John Sweeney with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010. Sweeney’s ...Created on 07 April 2021 -
Category: (Winter 2020)
... Barack Obama's historic 2008 election and saw a different role for community organizing and all of us then. It's worth another read. By PETER DREIER & DAVID MOBERG When Republican leaders at their St. ...Created on 15 January 2021 -
Category: (Spring 2020)
... to reconnect the roots and focus on organizing people in local communities across the country to build a healthy economy and just society together where they live. The election of Barack Obama as U.S. ...Created on 30 March 2020 -
Category: (Spring 2019)
... or hopes dreamed. No one better embodies that than Barack Obama. To move people from episodic turnouts to vote or show up at major demonstrations to continuing engagement requires organization, not simply ...Created on 09 April 2019 -
Category: (Winter 2016)
... a single election cycle when the isms are momentarily overcome by consumers who buy the same product (as they did with Barack Obama) but for the long-haul struggle that will be required if we are to come ...Created on 28 December 2016 -
Category: (Fall 2016)
... predecessor had eight years to address worker displacement in fossil fuel industries. And Barack Obama wasn’t any more responsive to that challenge than Jerry Brown in California—leaving quite an opening ...Created on 13 October 2016 -
Category: (Spring 2016)
Organizers are usually more legends in our own minds, than in our own times. We are so behind-the-scenes that to call organizers “little known,” seems like an overstatement. Except in one case: Barack ...Created on 28 March 2016 -
Category: (Fall 2014)
... racial prejudice or insensitivity that’s the root of the problem – or maybe something bigger? In San Francisco, for instance, an African American, Barack Obama, has received eighty-four and eighty-three ...Created on 11 October 2014 -
Category: (Winter 2012)
During the 2008 presidential primary, Barack Obama spent a day on the job with a prototypical American worker and union member. He followed around not an auto or steelworker but a home care worker, ...Created on 12 January 2013 -
Category: (Summer 2012)
... In a jab at the Tea Party, President Barack Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod called it “a grassroots citizens’ movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.”19 But jabs aside, the oil industry ...Created on 01 August 2012 -
Category: (Spring 2011)
... from my conversation with Greg enlivened despite how much of his tone was bittersweet. The church of today would never again be the church of his youth. The exhilaration of having had Barack Obama as a ...Created on 01 June 2011 -
Category: (Spring 2011)
... from my conversation with Greg enlivened despite how much of his tone was bittersweet. The church of today would never again be the church of his youth. The exhilaration of having had Barack Obama as a ...Created on 01 June 2011 -
Category: (Spring 2011)
... of organized labor also dilutes the resources that might be used to build new power and organization among the unorganized and informal workforce. The Maharashtra Model Recently, President Barack ...Created on 10 May 2011 -
Category: (Spring 2011)
... of organized labor also dilutes the resources that might be used to build new power and organization among the unorganized and informal workforce. The Maharashtra Model Recently, President Barack ...Created on 10 May 2011 -
Category: (Summer 2010)
... across the country to build a healthy economy and just society together where they live. The election of Barack Obama as U.S. President in 2008 and his much-publicized early work as a community organizer ...Created on 17 July 2010 -
Category: (Fall 2009)
... get a mix of folks who have stayed with organizing for all of their lives, folks who left but were greatly influenced by their organizing experience (Nicholas Von Hoffman, Barack Obama, and many others ...Created on 24 March 2010