{"id":2016,"date":"2011-05-17T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-key-to-community-organizing-work-seth-gunning.html"},"modified":"2011-05-17T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:04:19","slug":"a-key-to-community-organizing-work-seth-gunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-key-to-community-organizing-work-seth-gunning.html","title":{"rendered":"A key to community organizing work &mdash;Seth Gunning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comment by Seth Gunning came in on <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-backfire-effect-and-how-to-leapfrog-it.html\"><br \/>\nthe backfire effect and how to leapfrog it<\/a>. -jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=66100636&#038;authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&#038;authToken=sqU4&#038;trk=hb_upphoto\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/media03.linkedin.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrink_80_80\/p\/2\/000\/049\/09a\/12196b0.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nGreat article John. Thanks for turning me onto the research presented<br \/>\nhere, I&#8217;ll be looking into and using it. I&#8217;d also suggest a book called<br \/>\n&#8220;Breakthrough: from the death of environmentalism to the politics of<br \/>\npossibility&#8221;. I think you will love it.<\/p>\n<p>\nBeyond changing the messaging on signs, which I think is a great idea,<br \/>\nI think what the research reflects is a fundamental change in the approach<br \/>\nto the work.<\/p>\n<p>\nA key to community organizing work, as opposed to activism,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nis intimately<br \/>\nknowing and publicly identifying your self-interest. Speak with your<br \/>\npeers one on one to help them identify and expand their self-interests<br \/>\nas a way to build capacity for the work. To empower and connect with<br \/>\ncommunity members and decision makers. A limited number of people can<br \/>\ndo a limited number of things for a limited amount of time, but if your<br \/>\nprimary focus as activists\/organizers is to connect people with and<br \/>\nexpand their internal capacities as well as provide training to enhance<br \/>\nexternal skills as are related to the work, a limited number of people can<br \/>\nmake largely unlimited amount of change to root causes issues; that is,<br \/>\nto systems rather then symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\nGreat posts. Love the place your coming from. Good Luck and all my will<br \/>\nto the allies enhancing Valdosta&#8217;s clean, just energy future!<\/p>\n<p>\n-Seth Gunning\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comment by Seth Gunning came in on the backfire effect and how to leapfrog it. -jsq Great article John. Thanks for turning me onto the research presented here, I&#8217;ll be looking into and using it. I&#8217;d also suggest a book called &#8220;Breakthrough: from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility&#8221;. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,120,40,16,11,22,23,24,178,700],"tags":[8736,8738,8717,4542,4545,4544,1624,4311,8701,2695,7,4546,8712,4549,8713,4543,960,8714,4548,6,8749,4547],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-community","category-environment","category-lake","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-vlcia","category-wace","tag-activism","tag-biomass","tag-community","tag-community-organizing","tag-decision-makers","tag-empowerment","tag-energy","tag-environmentalism","tag-georgia","tag-justice","tag-lowndes-county","tag-organizers","tag-politics","tag-possibility","tag-renewable-energy","tag-self-interest","tag-seth-gunning","tag-solar","tag-systems","tag-valdosta","tag-vlcia","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}