Rhizome
What is a Community Organizer within Rhizome?
Community Organizers are experienced organizers who lead and provide direct support to their Fellows
What is community organizing?
A strategy for building power that involves bringing people together to push for a shared goal
What is collective power?
The capacity of a group to bring about change through organizing and action
What areas of New York encompass the NY1 chapter?
Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island (Long Island to come!)
What document did Fellows petition for in their schools?
Student Bill of Rights
What is relational organizing?
An organizing strategy in which someone mobilizes their own network and personal contacts
What is intersectionality?
How different social identities such as gender and race intersect and overlap, affecting the ways in which people are impacted by oppressive and/or discriminatory systems.
Which NY1 Organizer is a co-founder of Rhizome?
Rebecca
What is a Regional Organizer within Rhizome?
Regional Organizers are experienced organizers who lead local chapters and provides support to Community Organizers
What is a Day of Action?
A day dedicated to mobilizing people around a certain cause with the goal of drawing widespread attention. This was started by the environmentalism movement in 2005
What is civics?
Which Organizer(s) had their start(s) in organizing through voter organizing?
Rebecca and Ummul