Neighborhood Organizer Gifts

'My little boy made the sign!'

"Hey mister, your dogs have been chasing the neighborhood kids on bikes."

"I'm voting for Stephen because I cannot stand Katie's mother, she is so catty! Anyway-- how're your parents doing with the divorce?"

"The woman on the fire escape who acted like it was a balcony"

"Take us to your inclusive leader."

Collective Psyche

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

Pearly King and Queen

'Best watchdog I ever had!'

'Henderson always walks away with the neighborhood pumpkin carving contest.'

Before the riots/after the riots

Human Rights for All

social services cuts

STRIP *Community Care * 'client empowerment' policy

'If you'll excuse me, my car is on fire.'

'They're just a few bored students with some vague ideology. They'll be gone and forgotten in no time.'

Impotent Democracy

recycling

'While they're still enthusiastic do you think we could get them to take on climate change and the war on drugs as well?'

Attack, retreat, attack

"We're still trying to sort out the details."

The Train to Nowhere

Never on Sunday

'Our telephone 'get out the vote' drive reached everyone, unfortunately, they all voted for our opponent.'

"One of your delicious ducks got into my yard yesterday."

Police Shootings: Searching for justice

"Read me the one about Ali Obama and the Forty Community Organizers."

Centerville.

"Harold - We gotta come up with tag names and go over it - That's how we reclaim our block."

Vote for Brown

"The neighbors' place is a pig sty! Why can't we have something like that?"

"I can't recall a time when I've seen quite so many grassroot initiatives!"

''Big Society'...paradigm shift blah! Blah! Community spirit, neighbourhood cohesion, blah! Blah! Social inputs, perceptual platforms blah! Blah!'

Latinos in the USA

Food Banks - The Need/The Donation.