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Organizer Profile
I was brought into organizing by good upbringing, good timing, good luck. My parents survived the Nazis and taught us that we were accountable for our own actions and responsible for the wellbeing of our communities. My parents have an innate sense of social justice and fairness, one of their many gifts to me and my siblings. And then I had the good fortune to be a '60s kid--to follow the Civil Rights Movement, land in the Vietnam anti-war movement, benefit from the Women's Movement, and stumble into the Labor Movement. How cool is that!
Share what you know, but you don't know it all.
"Pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will."
Race, class and gender all matter all the time.
Leadership is not a dirty word.
Politics and culture are inextricably intertwined in movement-building.
Love is at least as important as anger, (Thanks,Tim Sampson! Sorry,Saul.)
It all goes better with chocolate.
OK, that's seven, but who's counting?!
So many people...MLK, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Bonnie Segal (ILGWU), Walt and Kay Tillow (when they were 1199 organizers in Pittsburgh), Sandy Phillips , Jim Ray and the folks in People's Oakland so many years ago, some nurses I once met in Danville Virginia, my old SEIU organizing director John Geagan, Karen Nussbaum, Marshall Ganz, Cathy Howell, the CTWO-ARC gang--Francis Calpotura, Rinku Sen, Gary Delgado, Sonia Pena, Gina Acebo, Dave Beckwith, Randy Barber, in fact just about everybody I've bumped up against in the past 40+ years...
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Trying to itemize my "organizing career" on this form made me doubt if I ever really was an organizer. I finally gave up trying to fill in all those tight and narrow boxes. But I like to think that I've made it from the '60s to 60 working with others to advance human rights, justice, environmental sustainability and peace. I try to live it, and inspire it, encourage others to do it, build communities around it, and sometimes write about it. Currently, I'm associate director of Working America, AFL-CIO. Back home in the strange land of the labor movement.
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