Da DAWG Says..... » community organizing

Who is the mysterious Smoking DAWG?

Smoking DAWG — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:19:20 +0000

S Dawg is an organizer who will be keeping up on poverty issues and on low wage worker issues and i promise too keep u informed.

Remembering A Strong Woman

Evelyn Dortch — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:32:10 +0000

Jean Colman spent her career working to help lower-income women achieve fair treatment and dignity. The former Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition director died May 8 at the age of 59 after helping thousands of women improve their lives and inspiring countless others

via Local News | Jean Colman, made a career helping low-income women | Seattle Times Newspaper.

I just received this news today about a strong sister in the struggle who was taken all too soon. When I first heard the news, I was so upset thinking that on May 8ththis strong wonderful woman – Jean Colman – died and I was working. This woman who had held my hand all the way from Seattle and helped me through the forming of DAWG as an organization. Who had supported me along with many other strong sisters in the struggle through the tough times. I was working , as if nothing as important as her passing was occurring. I didn’t have a clue what was happening all the way in Washington State. She died while I was busy working on details of a Poverty Scholars Leadership School.

Then, I began thinking about how she would have loved to be part of this Leadership School. How my continuing my work and planning this school for all the welfare mommas and poppas and all the other people in America living in poverty and struggling to fight the system that keeps us down was a tribute to her. I was honoring her spirit without even knowing she had left this world. So after the tears and the sadness, tomorrow I will continue working and continuing this fight to honor her and all the other strong sisters who have gone before and will come after.

Jean Colman, you will be missed and you will be remembered for all the good you did in your life to help all those whose lives you touched……..even those who didn’t realize you had a hand in improving things for them and their families.

Proud to Be a Community Organizer

Evelyn Dortch — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:24:38 +0000

As I am sure, many of you heard that during the Republic Convention derogatory remarks were made about community organizers. Since then many people have responded in defense of community organizing. You can do a search of the blogs and put in the words community organizer and get thousands of responses. That being said, as a community organizer that comes from a long line of community organizers I felt a need to say something about community organizing.

Without community organizers we would not be the nation we are today. Without community organizers there would have been no Civil Rights Movement or Women’s Rights Movement. The National Welfare Rights Organization, Headstart,labor unions, and many community based programs would have never existed. Community organizers have helped shape our country and our laws and have improved the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Here is a list of just a few community organizers that have contributed to the betterment of our world.

Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
Jane Addams
Mother Jones
Paul Wellstone
Fanny Lou Hamer
Myles Horton
Susan B. Anthony
Eugene Debs
Rosa Parks
Frank Keeney
Si Kahn
Johnnie Tillman
Gandhi
George Wiley
Joe Hill
Howard Wallace

So, when you hear those remarks about how community organizing isn’t really a job and doesn’t have any responsibilities. Just think about all these great people and what they have done for our nation.

Please leave a comment and let us know some of your favorite community organizers past and present.