When I left as AYCC’s National Director and stepped into the role of Chair, I had some idea of what the role would entail because of my law degree. Well. So I thought. I’d studied board mismanagement as part of corporate law, so I knew what constituted negligence and other major mistakes that boards fall into. This didn’t really prepare me, though, for becoming a board Chair. In particular, I hadn’t realised how much work it would be, or how much of an opportunity it would give me to practice leadership skills.
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Angela Davis
It is extremely important not to assume that there are 'communities of color' out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action... We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.
2014-06-10T11:10:53+00:00
It is extremely important not to assume that there are ‘communities of color’ out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action… We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/angela-davis/
Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Where do we go from here?’
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.
2015-02-11T15:49:46+00:00
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should...
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/martin-luther-king-jr-where-do-we-go-from-here/
Community organising is…
"Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an institution that is democratically controlled by that constituency that can develop the capacity to take on further problems and that embodies the will and the power of that constituency."
Dave Beckwith & Christina Lopez
Dave Beckwith & Christina Lopez
2014-11-20T17:02:58+00:00
“Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an...
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/303393/
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