Let's Send More Organizers to Week Long Training!

I think the best way to describe what community organizers do is something I picked up at the Organizing Revival:

We bring people together to tackle the problems that allow corporations and right wing demagogues to thrive. This is why I organize with the People's Lobby -- Together we've made huge strides in building a better world:

• Working with other orgs to pass AND DEFEND the Pretrial Fairness Act
• Get progressives elected to the Chicago City Council, the Police District Councils, and the office of Mayor
• Work to pass the Treatment not Trauma act -- an act that will reopen the mental health centers in Chicago

We're not even close to being done. We're currently 10 years into a 30 year plan to build real progressive power in not just "safe" areas like Chicago. And let's be clear: Peel back a layer of Chicago's political scene and you'll see it isn't at all that safe.

To do this work we need to bring folks together.

And one of the ways we do this is by training folks in how to be a better organizer. This is why I'm raising $1,500 -- So folks like me can get trained in building the kind of power we need to make sure folks have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, a roof over their head, and health care when they get sick.

The People's Lobby is my organizing home. We are not perfect, but we throw down and have fun doing it. With your help, we can do even more!