Core Dilemmas of Community Organizing: A Series on Open Left
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Overview
Core Dilemmas of Community Organizing Overview

What is Community Organizing Organizing?
What is Community Organizing? What isn't Community Organizing?
How Do Community Organizers Think?

Basic Issues
How Do You Replicate Local Success?
Challenges of The "Vision Thing"
Research that Serves Organizing (from Education Policy Blog [EPB])

Education and Miseducation
Culturally Miseducated for Civic Action in America
Educating the Public About Organizing: Beyond "Just Doing It"
In Youth Action, Power Precedes Engagement, Learning, and Understanding (EPB)
Education is a Tough Nut to Crack (EPB)

Social Class and Social Action
Social Class and Social Action
Fracturing Across Lines of Race and Class
Plusses and Minuses of Church-Based Social Action Groups
Privileged College Grads Need Low-paying, Fulfilling Jobs!
Inaction is Not the Same as Apathy

Lifestyle Politics
Self-Delusion and the Lie of Lifestyle Politics
Part II:  The Distortions of Lifestyle Politics

Democratic Dreams
Complicating the Democracy Genuflect
No, We Can't All Just Get Along
No, We Can't All Just Get Along, Part II
Experts, Citizens, and Democracy
Three Progressivisms

The Funding Challenge
Endowments as One Strategy
Redirecting Political Funding? The Returns to Investment in Organizing

Community Organizing vs. Political Organizing
Obama and the Crucial Difference Between Campaign and Community Organizing
The Crucial Difference Between Electoral Politics and Movement Building

Sparking a Social Movement
The Right to a Job: An "Organizing" Moment or a "Movement" Moment?
The Dignity of a Job Part II: How to Spark a Social Movement

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