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Interfaith Funders
Community Organizing: Debunking the Insults
(Sept. 2008) When GOP leaders Palin and Guiliani misrepresent community organizing at the RNC, an organized
community responds - in the press, on blogs and list servs, and yes, in the streets and congregations of our
country! As informed advocates of community organizing, Interfaith Funders is pleased to compile this resource
directory of recent news and views. We'll be updating it as news comes in, so bookmark this website and visit
often, and forward us your stories.
TAKE ACTION:
CREDO Action: Stand Up for Community Organizing! Petition ask's Gov. Palin to apologize
Blog: Community Organizers Fight Back Against GOP Attacks (over 500 posts as of 9/7 - add yours)
Keystone Progress: We are Community Organizers. Petition to Republicans to demand an apology. View video of
attempt to deliver this petition.
Faithful America: Thank you, organizers! ads 9/14 in St. Paul Pioneer Press and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
LINK TO ORGANIZATIONS:
Center for Community Change: Press Release - CCC and partners respond to attacks on field
Movement Vision Lab (CCC): Is Just Defending Community Organizing Enough? Organizers in their Own Words
Faith in Public Life website - Community Organizing Leaders Speak Out About "Actual Responsibilities"
Rooflines (NHI) - GOP Credo: Less Government, No Community Organizing? by John Atlas
National Organizers Alliance: Organizers respond to GOP attacks on organizers
NM and AZ Industrial Areas Foundation: Response by Frank Pierson
READ NEWS AND VIEWS:
NY Daily News - GOP Slur Proves Just How Out of Touch They are
Washington Post - About Those Community Organizing Years...
Essence - Community Organizers Put Their Country First
USA TODAY - GOP criticism angers some community organizers
USA TODAY – ‘Community organizer' slams attract support for Obama
New York Times Opinionator Blog - Parsing “Community Organizer’
DailyKOS - Educating the GOP: A Photo History of Community Organizers by BonnieSchlitz
Huffington Post - Defending Community Organizing by Sally Kohn
Slate - Hey, Sarah—Organize This! Palin may have more in common with community organizers than she realizes
Time.com - What a community organizer does by Joe Klein
Chicago Tribune - GOP's strawman: 'Community organizer'
Dallas Morning News - Why do Republicans mock "community organizer" role?
Media with Conscience - Republicans Hit New Low
MSNBC - Obama answers 'community organizer' jabs
Washington Post - About Those Community Organizing Years...
Tribune News - GOP’s Strawman: Community Organizer, by Mark Silva.
Huffington Post – Palin Owes Some Good People an Apology by Jim Wallis.
New York Times - Bronx Organizers React to G.O.P. Punch Lines
The Nation - From Organizer to Elected Official. by Peter Dreier
Religion Dispatches - Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering by Laura R. Olson
New York Times/On Religion - Transcending Race and Religion to Rebuild the Ruins of Baltimore, profile of
Arnold Graf. By Samuel G. Freedman
(Sept. 2008) When GOP leaders Palin and Guiliani misrepresent community organizing at the RNC, an organized
community responds - in the press, on blogs and list servs, and yes, in the streets and congregations of our
country! As informed advocates of community organizing, Interfaith Funders is pleased to compile this resource
directory of recent news and views. We'll be updating it as news comes in, so bookmark this website and visit
often, and forward us your stories.
TAKE ACTION:
CREDO Action: Stand Up for Community Organizing! Petition ask's Gov. Palin to apologize
Blog: Community Organizers Fight Back Against GOP Attacks (over 500 posts as of 9/7 - add yours)
Keystone Progress: We are Community Organizers. Petition to Republicans to demand an apology. View video of
attempt to deliver this petition.
Faithful America: Thank you, organizers! ads 9/14 in St. Paul Pioneer Press and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
LINK TO ORGANIZATIONS:
Center for Community Change: Press Release - CCC and partners respond to attacks on field
Movement Vision Lab (CCC): Is Just Defending Community Organizing Enough? Organizers in their Own Words
Faith in Public Life website - Community Organizing Leaders Speak Out About "Actual Responsibilities"
Rooflines (NHI) - GOP Credo: Less Government, No Community Organizing? by John Atlas
National Organizers Alliance: Organizers respond to GOP attacks on organizers
NM and AZ Industrial Areas Foundation: Response by Frank Pierson
READ NEWS AND VIEWS:
NY Daily News - GOP Slur Proves Just How Out of Touch They are
Washington Post - About Those Community Organizing Years...
Essence - Community Organizers Put Their Country First
USA TODAY - GOP criticism angers some community organizers
USA TODAY – ‘Community organizer' slams attract support for Obama
New York Times Opinionator Blog - Parsing “Community Organizer’
DailyKOS - Educating the GOP: A Photo History of Community Organizers by BonnieSchlitz
Huffington Post - Defending Community Organizing by Sally Kohn
Slate - Hey, Sarah—Organize This! Palin may have more in common with community organizers than she realizes
Time.com - What a community organizer does by Joe Klein
Chicago Tribune - GOP's strawman: 'Community organizer'
Dallas Morning News - Why do Republicans mock "community organizer" role?
Media with Conscience - Republicans Hit New Low
MSNBC - Obama answers 'community organizer' jabs
Washington Post - About Those Community Organizing Years...
Tribune News - GOP’s Strawman: Community Organizer, by Mark Silva.
Huffington Post – Palin Owes Some Good People an Apology by Jim Wallis.
New York Times - Bronx Organizers React to G.O.P. Punch Lines
The Nation - From Organizer to Elected Official. by Peter Dreier
Religion Dispatches - Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering by Laura R. Olson
New York Times/On Religion - Transcending Race and Religion to Rebuild the Ruins of Baltimore, profile of
Arnold Graf. By Samuel G. Freedman