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Hillary's Best Incarnation Yet (Hail to the Community Organizer-in-Chief!)

Beth Arnold | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

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All the critics who made fun of Obama's community organizing experience (Sarah Palin, are you listening?) were toothless wonders.

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The Pilgrims Were Community Organizers

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

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The Pilgrims Were America's First Community Organizers As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) chirped on-camera while a wriggling turkey was beheaded in the...

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Can We?

Wendy Block | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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I'm not ready to return to the same non-adrenaline-rush grassroots work that propelled Obama and the Dems to such a decisive victory.

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The City of Saint Francis Loses Its Own Saint Henry

Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living

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My post today might seem of primarily local interest in San Francisco. But if you give it a look, you will see that it deals with issues of human rig...

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Election Reflection: Good News and Bad News for Women and Families

Judy Patrick | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Sadly, many voters did not see past their fears to understand how denying LGBT people rights is cut from the same cloth of discrimination that made Obama's election such a poignant event.

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"Support I Have Yet to Earn": Obama's Victory Speech

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Barack Obama was in the No-Gloat Zone. For his very first speech as president-elect... Obama crafted a message with much of the scope and power of an inaugural address.

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Community Organizer of the World

Joan Garry | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Obama stands today as the president-elect of the United States because of his credential as a community organizer. What a delicious irony.

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Let's Spread Some of Obama's Community Organizing Magic on Climate Change

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 11.03.2008 | Green

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Sarah Palin should not have mocked Barack Obama for being a community organizer. If anything, tonight's results proved her wrong. Our new President ha...

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State of Confusion: Tuesday's Two Wild Cards

Bryant Welch | Posted 10.31.2008 | Living

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Samuel Johnson said, "Nothing so focuses a man's mind as the knowledge he is to hang at dawn." For the last six weeks the American voter's mind has been focused by and on the economy.

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Prairie Voles and Politics

Marcia Meier | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living

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There's reason to be alarmed about a culture where extreme emotions require pharmaceutical treatment.

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Making Sense of ACORN

Josh Brusin | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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It seems that ACORN is the GOP scapegoat this year. They tipped their hands when they labeled Obama a dastardly "community organizer" repeatedly at their convention.

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Landslide Needed

Norman MacAfee | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?

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Governor Palin, Did You Mean Community Organizers Like Jesus?

TJ Williams | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

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We asked ourselves, "Does Sarah Palin, who claims to be a Christian, even understand the Bible?" If she did, she would realize that the Old Testament prophets John the Baptist, the Apostles and even Jesus himself, functioned as community organizers.

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Regardless of Who Wins the Election, Start Teaching Your Kids Mandarin

Christopher Ingram | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Voters don't want change. When the American voting public goes to the polls and re-elects the same bunch of losers to Congress year after year, they should expect to get more of the same.

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Clearing Up Political Confusion

Ari Bendersky | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics

Every so often an email chain letter comes my way that is actually interesting. This isn't about saving Sesame Street from NEA funding cuts, but this email I just received was too good to not share.

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Sarah Palin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Community Organizing

Judy Rothman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Home

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Eleanor Roosevelt understood that citizens participating at the grassroots level to advance their lives is integral to the American way of life. Sarah Palin hasn't the foggiest notion.

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Proud to be a Community Organizer

Christine C. Quinn | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

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Whether you're a small town mayor or Speaker in a city of 8 million, we should all be approaching elected service like community organizing.

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Community Organizing on Skid Row Isn't So Easy

Samantha Page | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home

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According to Palin, being "a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities." But when asked about his day-to-day, L.A. community organizer "General Jeff" quipped back: "There isn't enough paper in the world to list everything I do."

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Community Organizing Experience v. Executive Experience

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

As we seek to find ways for our bloodied world to live in peace, we will need people who can build the community of nations.

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Daughter Dearest: You'll Never Be Vice-President

Marc Cooper | Posted 09.10.2008 | Home

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Here you are at age 25 with what your Mom and I thought was a solid education, and you're but a common community organizer. Let me count the ways we did you wrong.

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Why Republican Jokes Aren't Funny

Scott Kurashige | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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The Republicans are on a dangerous mission to kill real comedy in America. They use words and deeds that are so outlandish that they are obliterating the line between fiction and non-fiction.

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SAT Question for Sarah Palin (Hint: Think MLK)

Elizabeth Austin | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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A community organizer is like a mayor, except ...

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Community Organizers Behind Every Great Movement

Jonah Lalas | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home

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Organizers have a responsibility not only to themselves or the communities they work in, but to the greater struggle for justice. When an organizer fails, a portion of our country's progress may fail with them. To us, that's a much bigger burden than balancing the budget in Wasilla, Alaska.

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Third Convention Yields Ambitious National Family Platform -- Attendees Discuss

Larry Eason | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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Low income families from across the country came together to discuss and ratify a National Family Platform. In this short video, attendees share about the process.

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Republicans and Democrats Had Their Say -- Now Hear From America's Families

Larry Eason | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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Low-income families are attending the Equal Voice for America's Families Convention to call for the adoption of a national family platform that truly addresses the issues impacting families.

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