Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the NAACP organizer who sparked the 1955 bus boycott and helped give birth to the Civil Rights Movement, she was an anti-rape activist long before the boycott.
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That year was also the one in which Afweyne attained notoriety as the key organizer of a pirate group that conducted two high-profile hijackings.
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE), as the main organizer, has announced that GAW 2011 s main activity will revolve around "Story Telling", also referred to as "The Big Story".
The son of a local businessman with political connections, Rana became a neighborhood force by working as an organizer for the two political parties that have competed for power for decades in Bangladesh, according to local politicians, as well as someone who grew up near Rana and still lives in the area.
But when I first got my job as an organizer for the Catholic churches in Chicago, working with parishes in low-income neighborhoods, they taught me that no government program can replace good neighbors and people who care deeply about their communities who are fighting on their behalf.
Ms. Quinn's first job in the city was as an ANHD tenant organizer, and she worked for the group in the late '80s and early '90s.
With respect to the history of fighting poverty, I got my start in public service as a community organizer working in the shadow steel plants that had been closed in some of the poorest neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago.
Having a president who belongs to the Harvard elite and the community-organizer streets is not the same as having a president who has lived a long life among middle-class Americans and understands them.
Obama served as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago after he graduated from college.
After he graduated from university, Barack got a job as a community organizer in the struggling neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago.
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The chief organizer of the sports gambling operation is identified as Bartice "Luke" King, who opened MVP Sports in 2002 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
As guests of the custom-tour organizer Shakti Himalaya, we are ensconced in the heart of village life but with plumbing, (occasional) hot water, and (balky) electricity.
His work as a young community organizer on the South Side of Chicago was funded in part by the Catholic churches of Chicago and their Developing Communities Project.
This is not to belittle the value of waiting tables at South of the Border any more than discounting the lessons one learns as a community organizer.
And I learned early on that no matter how much money you pour into the schools, nothing replaces the love and attention and occasional scoldings from a parent. (Applause.) I learned as a community organizer that no government program can substitute for the caring and passion of neighbors and communities.
Somehow his charms as a community organizer are just not working on the U.S. Congress.
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And, it seems, the president learned it during his stint as a community organizer in Chicago, Illinois.
After Katrina, he served not only as a spiritual advisor but also as a community organizer, making sure his parishioners got the help that they needed.
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Their call to fix what was broken in our world, a call rooted in faith, is what led me just a few years out of college to sign up as a community organizer for a group of churches on the Southside of Chicago.
And, really, when he went to the State Senate, he tried to do a lot of things that would help the people that he had been helping back as a community organizer.
Another tip is to narrow your list to as few stores as possible, says Donna Smallin, author of The One-Minute Organizer Plain and Simple.
This article is the first in a four-part series discussing the early formative Chicago political career days of Barack Obama as community organizer, lawyer, Illinois state senator, financial foundation executive, and U.S. Senate campaigner.
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In the nine years she spent with the organization, Julie distinguished herself as an effective program manager, community organizer, and advocate for Latino youth.
MS. PSAKI: I think -- in the final days, I think the President has reflected quite a bit on his roots as a community organizer, as somebody who was engaged -- running a voter registration drive and having those kind of individual one-on-one interactions with people.
In Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama, biographer Steve Dougherty writes that as a community organizer Obama helped establish a counseling and mentoring program for at-risk young people.
In addition, Mr. Case was a founding organizer of Business Strengthening America and has served as vice chair of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and was also honored with the National Mentoring Partnership Leadership Award.
But the presidential candidate has repeatedly said that he got his best education as a community organizer at Altgeld Gardens, a public housing complex in Chicago.
You started your career of service as a community organizer and now we are hearing from people like -- organizations like the CBC is saying rebuilding our economy on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans is something that is simply not acceptable, like the cuts to the Community Service Block Grants, Pell Grants, heating oil assistance, and freezing salaries of federal workers.
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At the Republican National Convention, McCain's running mate Sarah Palin downplayed Obama's time as a community organizer back in Chicago.
"This is the brain trust of the New Economy, right here, " said TED organizer Chris Anderson , a British publisher who a couple of years ago set up the conference as a nonprofit organization.
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