The Organizer: Screening and Q&A with Wade Rathke

Sunday, May 20, 2018

3:45pm – 6pm

Palm Theater, SLO

Wade Rathke, a controversial figure behind the most powerful grassroots organizing model in modern American history, will join the Central Coast community for a screening of The Organizer and Q&A. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from a powerful community organizer about how our communities can make substantive change one person at a time.

https://www.theorganizerfilm.com/

"THE ORGANIZER is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the often hidden, usually messy and always controversial job of building power for the powerless. 

THE ORGANIZER is a portrait of Wade Rathke, the controversial founder of ACORN, as well as an exploration of that much maligned and misunderstood occupation – community organizing.

Shot across four continents and with a wealth of archives and interviews with ACORN organizers and community leaders, along with renowned political figures like Noam Chomsky and Marshall Ganz, THE ORGANIZER shows us how, under the right leadership, a few driven and passionate individuals can create powerful and sustaining organizations that can transform lives and communities and inspire broad political movements."