Organizing A Mass-Based Community Constituency | NEFAC

Organizing A Mass-Based Community Constituency | NEFAC

"I've helped bring a busload of children and parents about to lose their library to the gated community where the library trustees lived. Members that I recruited have taken over vacant lots and blocked traffic for campaigns. It all pays off when the neighborhood leader you recruited shouts down the Director of Public Works or the retired grandmother you literally begged to come to a meeting stands up mid-discussion to say, "If that bastard won't clean up his lot, then we'll take it ourselves!" Once turned on to the idea of unity, activism and the power that lies in the hands of community, people will surprise you and can often become very radical."