Free Anti-Poverty Organizing Materials

categories: Activism, Inequality, Research, The Economy

Published October 19, 2009 @ 05:42AM PT

The Poverty Scholars Program has uploaded its training materials from its Leadership program, and I highly recommend those who are trying to do anti-poverty organizing in their own communities download them stat.

Many of the materials are in English and Spanish, and include: statistics on the current economic crisis, the causes of the current rates of poverty and inequality, and lessons on histories of anti-poverty organizing here in the US on which to build. There are lots of graphs and images and accompanying explanations.

This is a terrific resource for our anti-poverty activism. Many thanks to the Program for making these materials available.

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I went there and checked it out. Thanks for the bibical quotes And I wish I could get a copy of

"Why Worship a Homeless Man on Sunday, then Forget Him on Monday?" I like the posters of the last Civil Rights Movement, of ordinary people ripping up the black tar of the streets. Us underpaid HAS the power. If and When We Take it.

The recommended site could be a site from time to time I check out. Hope they update. Change.org is a great place.

Posted by jan Lightfootlane on 10/19/2009 @ 09:06AM PT
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Leigh is a PhD candidate in urban planning at MIT, and a consultant on U.S. Gulf Coast recovery. She sits on the Board of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation in Boston, and has worked with non-profits, foundations and local governments on policies and programs aimed at reducing urban poverty and inequality.