Organizing and political action

Conatus

Create and grow organizations led by people deprived of rights and aimed at restoring justice through action.

community organizing

Community Organizing is the story of how the weak win their fight against the powerful. This is a story of fighting for social justice. It’s the story of David against Goliath, of Moses against Pharaoh, it’s the story of Luke Skywalker against Darth Vader, of Nelson Mandela against the Afrikaners, it dates back to the dawn of time.

If community organizing were to be summed up in one sentence it could be:

THE LAST SHALL BE THE FIRST

As Conatus exercises and teaches it, it is a set of principles (meaning, empiricism, realism…) and techniques (narratives, relationships, tactics) that are inspired by the art of war, movement worker, performing arts, new technologies.

As a set of principles and techniques, Community Organizing was formalized from the second half of the 20th century by activists such as Ella Baker,  Marshall Ganz, Wade Ratke and Bayard Rustin.

Community organizing is a discipline that consists for the “weak” in building the power that allows them to establish a balance of power and win victories against the powerful.

 

 

The last shall be the first.

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