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 ...

In her fiery Republican convention speech this summer, Gov. Sarah Palin attacked Sen. Barack Obama by belittling his experience as a community organizer. She compared working as a small-town mayor to ...

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; ...

We’re in desperate need of broad-based community organizing these days. Many of the most tangible injustices in our world, both large and small, appear to be unresolvable through straightforward ...

Si Kahn’s latest book,Creative CommunityOrganizing, is a reflectivecollection of storiesand songs from Kahn’slong and venerable historyas a community organizer.He tells rivetingtales from his ...

American democracy is in crisis. Trust in government has been plummeting for decades; an alarming number of Americans—especially young people—no longer believe democracy is the best form of government ...

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The biggest punch line so far at this Republican convention in St. Paul: “community organizer.” Why did these two words suddenly become the zinger of the night at the convention? The credit or blame ...

Rudy Giuliani had me in stitches during his red-meat keynote address at the GOP convention. I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a ...

Lahaina community organizer Paele Kiakona announced his candidacy for the District 14 seat in the Hawaii State House.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The national discussion of community organizers over the past week has piqued my interest because ...

Where's the media on President Obama's firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General, Gerald Walpin? It has not been once mentioned on the evening news programs, in The New York Times, in The Washington Post ...