#community-organizing

#community-organizing

Advocates rallied outside the federal courthouse, emphasizing the situation surrounding Guillermo Medina Reyes, a Bay Area community organizer, who has lived in the U.S. since age six.

COVID shattered the reputation of our area, giving rise to a challenging environment for businesses, especially those dependent on tourism, such as hotels and theaters.

Help is not on the way. We are the ones we've been waiting for," observed Damien Goodmon in an interview with NPQ. For two decades, Goodmon has been a leading community organizer in Los Angeles's Crenshaw neighborhood.

Moyers was among the most acclaimed broadcast journalists of the 20th century, known for exposing the role of big money in politics and highlighting defenders of democracy.

Walking through Providence, Rhode Island, it's hard to miss the flyers posted on storefronts, bulletin boards, and lamp posts rallying passersby with a defiant call to action: Let's Fight Trump's Fascism! Defend Our Communities! Build a Better World!

The trauma from both incidents, Brou said, has stayed with him to this day.

If you saw a kidnapping happening in daylight, and you have no idea who it was, what happened, what agency, everybody's living in fear and panic.

Ali emphasized that the struggles faced by various communities, such as cost of living and access to education, are not limited to any ethnic or working-class group.

"We were under the radar for so long, people were getting evicted and everything," said Pat Cochran, an organizer for the tenants at Thomas Paine Square Apartments.