Jim,
A while back, you requested some stories about organizing rural communities.
I saved the note as I have been constructing a web page. I have three
stories of rural community work I have done, 2 in Africa and 1 with the
Colville Tribe, that you and others might be interested in.
Here is the website address: http://goebel.palouse.net/news.htm
The articles are mid-page under Recent Stories.
Thanks. Jeff
Carl Jeffry Goebel
Goebel and Associates
P.O. Box 413
Pullman, WA 99163-0413
Phone: (509) 334-4767
Fax: (775) 993-4283
E-mail: goebel@wsu.edu
Web page: http://goebel.palouse.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iffs@warp.nal.usda.gov [mailto:owner-iffs@warp.nal.usda.gov]
On Behalf Of Jim Worstell
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:46 AM
To: Hal Hamilton; Sanet; IFFS
Subject: IFFS: Re: LCP/Taproot and organizing
Hal and other organizers,
What a thoughtful review of the your work! It begs a couple of questions,
though:
What are the training centers which are "doing a good job teaching
organizing"?
Why are "basic community organizing skills" lacking in rural America?
What are the most successful means of developing community organizing
skills?
Are Alinsky's rules for radicals still the best foundation for organizing?
Our experience exploring these questions in five years of organizing in the
Delta has led us to dedicate a significant portion of our organization's
efforts and website to exploring successful organizing efforts.
If you have organizing successes, websites or training centers we'd love to
make them more widely known on http://www.deltanetwork.org. So far, we've
got
successes and methods from Australia, New Zealand, North Dakota, Kentucky
and Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and a few others--but we'd like to have
lots more.
We're also doing a series of semi-structured interviews for case studies of
successful rural organizer/facilitators. Who's your favorite rural
organizer?
Send us anything which has inspired you to organize rural communities. It
will help us in the Delta and we'll do our best to publicize it.
Thanks,
Jim and the Delta Network folks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hal Hamilton <hhamilton@centerss.org>
To: sender sanet <owner-sanet-mg@cals.ncsu.edu>; Sanet
<sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu>; IFFS <iffs@nal.usda.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:24 AM
Subject: update on LCP/Taproot
May 2000
An Update from Learning Communities Project TAPROOT seminars
Many participants want increased skills at "bringing more people to the
table" and "increasing involvement in local groups". These are basic
community organizing skills that seem to be lacking in a lot of sustainable
agriculture groups. We know these skills are being taught well by some
training centers, so we're not yet sure how much of this to incorporate into
Taproot seminars.
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