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In our efforts to help people understand what community organizing is, we have found it is useful to discuss what organizing is not.
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Schutz, A., Sandy, M.G. (2011). What Isn’t Community Organizing?. In: Collective Action for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118539_3
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