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 ...

Eva Davis, the beloved community organizer, was central to an Atlanta artist’s work on a high-rise that was once part of the ...

It is now a commonly held belief that funding organizing work is the most effective way to bring about real, effective social change. But what is the history behind that belief? How have full-time ...

Ask not what you can do for your country, said Errol Louis in the New York Daily News, unless you want Republicans making fun of you. In an ugly display of ignorance last week, speaker after speaker ...

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; ...

Si Kahn’s latest book, Creative Community Organizing, is a reflective collection of stories and songs from Kahn’s long and venerable history as a community organizer. He tells riveting tales from his ...

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 ...

When Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin took the stage at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, she took some pretty hard, but familiar, jabs at Barack Obama, for instance, ...

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 ...

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 ...