Community organizing is an act of gathering individuals in a
group for the promotion of like-minded interests. Community
organizing attempts to influence decision-making bodies such as
a corporation and government to address interests of the group.
In one type of community organizing, there is a leadership
structure called the community organizer and they utilize
methods such as picketing, protests, voting, strikes, and
sometimes violence as means to achieve their goals. Community
organizing efforts includes the building of coalitions and may
be founded in grassroots (built from scratch), faith-based
(members of a church), civic-based or union-based. In the 21st
century, it is common to forge community organizing for the
political means of electing a candidate or enacting a policy.
Rebirth of the SDS In 2006 a group of former Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) members and sympathisers known as the
Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) re-founded the SDS for a
new generation of college students. MDS fun