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Community organizers are staple of democracy

September 9, 2008 By LEWIS FINFER Lewis Finfer is director of the Massachusetts Communities Action Network, a federation of community improvement organizations based largely in religious congregations.

The way to make the case for John McCain should not be by tearing down the work of Barack Obama's early career, which is the hard work that thousands of community organizers are doing daily to make democracy more vital and improve our lives.

Community organizing was mocked by Gov. Sarah Palin and Rudolph Giuliani in speeches to the Republican National Convention. Yet community organizers work...

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