September 10, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
As the debate over remarks by the Republican vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, about community organizing continues, Judith Bell, president of PolicyLink, an antipoverty advocacy group in Oakland, Calif., wants to break the stereotype about who community organizers are.
On her group’s EquityBlog, she shares an example of school kids in Anderson, Calif., who got together to successully convince a local Wal-Mart manager to replace the junk food in check-out lines with granola bars, trail mix, and other healthy snacks.
“The organizers responsible for this progress probably don’t fit the harsh stereotypes of the profession we’ve been hearing about recently,” Ms. Bell writes.
What do you think? Are there other examples of other community organizers that don’t fit stereotype Ms. Bell writes about?
