Section outline

  • What is power? And how do we increase the power of a group of people? 

    Watch:

    America Will Be - Episode 1: Uniting a Movement. Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. (2018). 

    Read:

    Power and social change. Grassroots Policy Project.

    Sen, R. (2003). Introduction: Community organizing—Yesterday and today. In Stir it up: Lessons in community organizing and advocacy (pp. xliii–lxv). Jossey-Bass.

    Field journal UL-4: Walk around Brookland. Find and take a picture of some type of evidence that neighbors are working together to accomplish something. (Or at the very least, are inviting their neighbors to work together on a project.) In your own words, describe the three faces of power discussed in the reading from the Grassroots Policy Project. Have you ever been involved in intentionally exercising one of these dimensions of power?

    Due by 11:00am:

    Community need paper. Submit on Moodle. (PP&C)