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Getting into the Streets
Organizing Your Community
From: Educating for Action
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Although the terms “organizing” and “activism” are often considered synonymous, there are important distinctions. Organizing is about developing a large number of individuals with aligned (although not necessarily identical) goals, and enabling the various types of individuals and motivations to act as a unified front for social change. Organizing can begin with as little as one person, but usually, it is a few motivated, brave, and forward-thinking individuals. From this nucleus, an infrastructure is built that will recruit more and more people, and, hopefully, over time, the organization that you are building will take on a life of its own.
Contributors
Drew Robert Winter
Drew Robert Winter is the director of publications at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and a PhD student at Rice University in the Anthropology department. Named one of the “Top 20 activists under 30” by Veg-News magazine for his leadership and organizing for nonhuman animals, he works at the grassroots level toward a holistic, intersectional approach to social justice. Winter works with many advocacy- and research-oriented groups, including Food Not Bombs, Vegan Outreach, the Animals and Society Institute, and the Humane Research Council. He also cohosted and coproduced the online show Radical Radio.
