Community Organizing
Name one thing about society today that is different because of community organizing? Name something won through organizing?
What is: examples could include: integrated buses, 1 cop removed from HPA, minimum wage, Black people can vote, the weekend, free and reduced breakfast and lunch at school, etc.
Give one example of a method of outreach.
What is Ex: Door knocking , phone banking, street outreach, recruitment conversation, one-on-one?
Explain what a talking piece is.
What is: something you hold and pass around, only the person with the talking piece can talk, everyone else must listen, it should be something meaningful and have a story behind it.
What is it called when the bank takes a house away from a home owner?
What is foreclosure?
What is a campaign?
What is: sustained and coordinated organizing fight that uses collective power to meet your demands
Name the main type of power that community organizing builds?
What is People Power?
When you are doing outreach are you supposed to listen more or talk more?
What is: Listen
These are three different rounds or elements that a RJ Circles could have
What is: answer could include three of any of these: opening, check in, icebreaker, values, closing, ribbon ceremony, safe space activity, or question round about a specific conflict.
What does CBA stand for
What is: Community Benefits Agreement
Name one stage of a campaign:
Reserach
Power Analysis: identify your target. analyze institutions and power structures
Goal setting: develop your campaign goals
Strategy: Develop a plan to win
Run your campaign
Evaluate the campaign
Finish this definition, Community organizing: the process of bring people together directly affected by an issue to use their collective power to fight to win concrete improvements in peoples lives and challenge the: ________________.
What is the Power Structure. (also accepted is the status quo system)
What is the purpose of a One on One?
What is: learning about peoples’ self interests, building relationships with people we want to bring into the organization
What is one value that a circle must have.
What is: confidentiality, respect.
Who is responsible for the closure of about half of the mental health clinics across Chicago forcing some of the most critical patients to drive more than an hour to get the care they need?
Who is: Rahm Emmanuel
Identify the correct problem, issue and demand.
Young Black people are being disproportionately shot and killed on the south side of chicago.
There is a wealthy hospital on the south side but there is no trauma center on the south side of Chicago so many gunshot would victims are dying while being transported far away.
The University of Chicago should open a trauma center.
Problem: Young Black people are being disproportionately shot and killed on the south side of chicago.
Issue: There is a wealthy hospital on the south side but there is no trauma center on the south side of Chicago so many gunshot would victims are dying while being transported far away.
Demand: The University of Chicago should open a trauma center.
In community organizing, who is your constituency?
What is: the people directly affected by an issue?
What are the four parts of a rap sheet?
Intro, Problem , Solution , Crunch
Explain restorative justice.
What is: the process of addressing harm done by bringing together the victim, the person who caused harm, and the community impacted to hold the person who caused harm accountable to repair the harm.
Explain what gentrification is
What is: The process by which rich property owners (which could mean individuals, the government, and businesses) make a poor neighborhood “better” by displacing or moving out the people that live there. The rich property owners make a profit from the land by increasing its value. This process mostly hurts people of color, poor people, immigrants, and elderly people.
What is one necessary component of an issue in a campaign?
What is:
Result in real improvement in students lives
Build students’ power and change the relations of power
Raise awareness and help us challenge the systemic oppression of racial capitalism
Be winnable
Has a clear target (decision maker)
Is widely felt by students
Is deeply felt by students
Build leadership of students