Importance of labor/community collaborations; challenges of working in multi-cultural environments. Bloch organized for 5 years in Thailand; worked for ACORN in Oakland; joint campaign with United Food and Commercial Workers attracted him to working for more stable, well-resourced organizations. Directed a labor/community coalition to improve both wages and working conditions for truck drivers and improved environmental conditions near the trucking terminal. Now is Political Director of Teamsters Council 7 in the Bay area.
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Bloch, Doug, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
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The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
