Community Organizers Plan for Obama’s First 100 Days
February 5, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
With one of their ilk in the White House, grass-roots community organizers are primed to take advantage of their time in the spotlight, according to The Washington Post.
President Obama’s background as an organizer in a South Side Chicago neighborhood in the 1980s has given new attention to the role of those who work on behalf of low-income and minority Americans. An effort by the Center for Community Change, an umbrella group for organizers, looks to make the most of that connection — and the momentum of the new president’s first 100 days in office — by bringing 10 organizers from 10 groups across the country to plead their cases to Capitol Hill lawmakers during each of the Obama administration’s first 14 weeks.
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