What Makes a Good Community Organizer?
By Hunter Gray Important information for community grass roots organization. Just What Makes a Damn Good Community Organizer? Based on my Fifty Years of Community Organizing Hunter Gray [Hunterbear] 12/30/03 I’m an Organizer, a damn good one. I get and keep people together for social justice action. I’ve been an organizer for virtually half a century — all over much of what’s called the United States. [I’ve also been, among other things, a fur trapper, forest fire fighter, soldier, prospector, metal [development] miner, minority hiring and training consultant, college/university professor, writer.] But my vocation is organizer. I’ve done it full time for many years indeed. And then, in conjunction with other jobs, I’ve always continued to organize, somewhere and somehow. What follows here is my essentially outline conception of the characteristics and qualities of a good and effective organizer who is genuinely on the grassroots job. That can be a union local; a temporary single-issue
