Welcome to COMM-ORG

We are celebrating Saul Alinksy's 100th Birthday!

Saul would have been 100 on January 30, 2009. We will be spending some time here on COMM-ORG celebrating his work and his legacy.

We now have two COMM-ORG Papers focused on the Alinsky legacy.

What are you doing for Alinsky's birthday? E-mail and let us know.

Thanks,

Randy Stoecker
moderator/editor, COMM-ORG
randy@comm-org.wisc.edu

Continuing our Alinsky theme, we now have a new addition to the COMM-ORG Papers collection.

Mike Miller, A Critique of John McKnight & John Kretzmann's "Community Organizing in the Eighties: Toward a Post-Alinsky Agenda"

This paper also commences our new web-based discussion forum, where COMM-ORG members can post comments on papers. To become a member just register using the link on the left.

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There are now three 2009 COMM-ORG papers:

• Quilen Diedre Blackwell, Holding Corporate America’s Feet to the Fire: The Industrial Areas Foundation’s Collision Course with Kodak
• Linda M. Bosma, Traci L. Toomey, Christine Matter, Sherry Timmermann Goodpaster, and Lindsey E. A. Fabian, A Case Study of Community Organizing in a Large Metropolitan Area: Changing Alcohol Policies at Community Festivals
• Peter Dreier, Organizing in the Obama Years: A Progressive Moment or a New Progressive Era?

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