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Organizers Inspired by Sanders Are Changing the Landscape in the Rural South

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knocking on doors - the old-fashioned key to community organizing
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They started by knocking on doors in rural communities and asking residents three simple questions: What are you struggling with that keeps you awake at night? Who has the power or responsibility to change this? And what is the change that would actually solve your problems?

In just about every community, organizers heard two issues of concern come up over and over again: health care and jobs. That’s not surprising.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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