Strong attachment to movement-building in addition to traditional community organizing. Importance of branding and concise messaging. Left the organization he founded, and now it is even stronger. Worked with ACT-UP, Hunger Action Network, founded Community Voices Heard. Went to Center for Community Change’s National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support; now works with People’s Climate Network.
Notes:
Getsos, Paul, 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 …
