Organizing experience that started with a faith-based network, moved to issue-based. He values movements, but sees that mobilizing overwhelms leadership development and ownership. “There is no organizing on a computer.” Started with PICO (Orange County, Denver, Chicago). Moved to Illinois PIRG, environmental organizing, MoveOn. Org.
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Gaudette, John, 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 …
