What is the job description for a "community organizer"?

A community organizer brings law suits on to banks to make them lend to people who can't afford it. Years later this amounts to a world wide financial meltdown. Then you blame it on George Bush.

Community organizing is a process through which people living in proximity to each other are brought together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest. Unlike those who promote more-consensual "community building," community organizers generally assume that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless. A core goal of community organizing is to generate durable power for an organization representing the community, allowing it to influence key decision-makers on a range of issues over time. In the ideal, for example, this can get community organizing groups a place at the table before important decisions are made.[1] Community organizers work with and develop new local leaders, facilitating coalitions and assisting in the development of campaigns.

Organized community groups attempt to influence government, corporations and institutions, seek to increase direct representation within decision-making bodies, and foster social reform more generally. Where negotiations fail, these organizations seek to inform others outside of the organization of the issues being addressed and expose or pressure the decision-makers through a variety of means, including picketing, boycotting, sit-ins, petitioning, and electoral politics. Organizing groups often seek out issues that they know will generate controversy and conflict. This allows them to draw in and educate participants, build commitment, and establish a reputation for winning.[2] Thus, community organizing is usually focused on more than just resolving specific issues. In fact, specific issues are often vehicles for other organizational goals as much as they are ends in themselves.

Community organizers generally seek to build groups that are democratic in governance, open and accessible to community members, and concerned with the general health of the community rather than a specific interest group. Organizing seeks to broadly empower community members, with the end goal of distributing power more equally throughout the community.

The three basic types of community organizing are grassroots or "door-knocking" organizing, faith-based community organizing (FBCO), and coalition building. Political campaigns often claim that their door-to-door operations are in fact an effort to organize the community, though often these operations are focused exclusively on voter identification and turn out.

He organizes the community against what?

He organizes the community to help what?

He organizes the community to education what?

One of Obama's tasks was to get new toilets for an apartment building. He failed. Generally, what they do is just gather a bunch of people together to form an angry mob and threaten others to get what they want.

Whatever Obama needs it to be.

what about you? do you have a job?

no

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