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What is Organizing?
Moser, Richard
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/16/what-is-organizing/http://befreedom.co/2018/03/16/what-is-organizing/ Date Written: 2018-03-16 Publisher: Be Freedom Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22207 Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way. Abstract: - Excerpt: Organizing is a practice aimed at helping people create the social movements and political organizations necessary to wage campaigns and win power. How do we make real the promises of democracy? Organizing is a time-tested strategy for empowering the people. Organizing Relies on Action/Movement/Experience The great American thinker, W.E.B. Dubois wrote: "The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience." "The people…will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience." Experience is the teacher, the movement is the school, organizing is the method. "The organizer's work is designed to produce social action because it is in the tumult of political life that leaders emerge, relationships develop and transformations in consciousness are realized." Organizing depends on experience and experimentation rather than doctrine or ideology alone. Ideas are best proven or disproven in action rather than in debate. Words are important yes, but actions speak louder. "Organize the Unorganized!" Subject Headings |