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How to be a Community Organizer from the Bottom Up
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- How to be a Community Organizer from the Bottom Up
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Event: How to be a Community Organizer from the Bottom Up
Date: Thursday, December 3rd
Time: 7:00pm
Where: Cooperage
Admission: Free to all
On Thursday December 3 at 7 pm in the Sonoma State University Cooperage activist, community organizer and author Mike Miller will present a workshop on "How to be a Community Organizer from the Bottom Up". This workshop is offered free of charge.
Using San Francisco's Mission District, and the Mission Coalition Organization for which he was the community organizer in the late 1960s/early 1970s, to illustrate the principle "change comes from below" the program will give participants an opportunity to learn about how people power is built from the bottom up. There will be both lecture and small group exercises.
Mike Miller is the author of A Community Organizer's Tale, a richly detailed story of people power set in San Francisco's predominantly Latino Mission District. Employing strategies inspired by community organizer Saul Alinsky and the Deep South civil rights movement, the organization defeated urban renewal, negotiated jobs for the unemployed, and protected low-income tenants from exorbitant rents. Embodying the concept, recently returned to the public eye by its proponent Barack Obama, that "change comes from below" and combining colorful stories, lessons on organizing for social and economic justice, public policy analysis, a keen eye for American politics, and reflection on democratic theory, this is a thoughtful and hopeful antidote to cynicism, apathy, and powerlessness.
"Mike Miller has become known as one of the most experienced community organizers in the nation."
-Howard Zinn, author, A People's History of the United States
For more information or to pre register for this event please call 664-2382.
Mike Miller's presentation is sponsored by Associated Students Productions in cooperation with Freshman Year Experience and Hutchins School.
- Associated Students Inc. 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
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