This column was written by Peter Dreier. Before Karen Bass was elected Speaker of the California Assembly--the second-most-powerful job in the nation's largest state, with over 36 million people--she ...

In her fiery Republican convention speech this summer, Gov. Sarah Palin attacked Sen. Barack Obama by belittling his experience as a community organizer. She compared working as a small-town mayor to ...

It is now a commonly held belief that funding organizing work is the most effective way to bring about real, effective social change. But what is the history behind that belief? How have full-time ...

Ask not what you can do for your country, said Errol Louis in the New York Daily News, unless you want Republicans making fun of you. In an ugly display of ignorance last week, speaker after speaker ...

When Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin took the stage at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, she took some pretty hard, but familiar, jabs at Barack Obama, for instance, ...

In Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, he rebuked "those who are preparing to divide us," and famously declared, "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A Tucson community organizer is asking city leaders to support or partially sponsor a city-sanctioned encampment. Armed with a stack of visual guides and possible programming ...