4049 Change the Power Structure in Your Community

Speaker: Michael Gecan
Sponsor: Advocacy and Witness Staff Group

Michael Gecan, Beacon Press author of Going Public and long-time community organizer, described results of changed power structures in previously devastated areas: affordable homes, living wages, safer streets, health facilities, and new schools with high graduation rates. Then he outlined the steps for achieving these successes: time, money, training and a team.

“Individual charisma is one of the most overrated qualities of the modern era,” he said. “As Peter Drucker said, ‘the only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.’”

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