Organizing practice: building powerful relationships.(Special feature: the push-pull of immigration)

Editor's note: The following are excerpts from training material developed in the early 1980s by community organizer Steve Schneider. He told me that he used this process with great effectiveness within a parish that had been bitterly divided between its older "Anglo" retirees and its newer, and younger, Latino families. While they shared a common faith, there were many issues between them: competition for scarce space, with different uses, kid's noise, introduction of a Spanish language mass and others. By the end of a workshop that made use of this exercise, the walls of division were broken. In particular their stories of struggle, leaving a homeland and coming to a new ...

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