Meaning Of Community Organizing In Elementary School

When I think about the meaning of community organizing, I recall a selective memory of my elementary school years. I recall being in Zamora, Michoacan and the teacher telling us that one of our classmate father just passed away. As I just want to point out that the elementary school was on the outskirts of Zamora, and everyone knew each others family. Personally, I knew the señor Francisco Peña but knew him as Don Pancho, he was the carnicero in the area of Valenica. Thus, as I heard the news, soon the community knew as well; we knew that the family Peña didn’t have the money to cremiate their loved one. Eventhough he was a carnicero, Don Pancho was a humble community member, he had given food to majority of the community for free. Since …show more content…
49). The meaning of political educator mentions that the characteristics, are those organizers that bring up the whole point of a movement and what they expect in the outcome. A good example is Huey P. Newton, also know as one of the co-founders of The Black Panthers party. The Black Panthers established in Oakland October 15, in order to combat the treatment of the community by the police officers. Newton’s role as an political educator, involved him to obtain knowledge of the situation even before he started the group. Reason being, in order to start a party to combat a social issues, he had to informed on what he wanted to make a change in. For instance, Newton knew that most of the kids that went to school, weren’t able to eat breakfast. Thus, the kids will not perform good in school, thus impacting the number of African Americans being able to pursue higher education. Newton, wanted to change this by developing a program to tackle the issue of educaton performance amongst young African Americans. Thus, the breakfast program was developed, this program was developed to provide free breakfast for young folks in order for them to focuse in school. Newton knew that education amongst African American could be improved if he informed the community of …show more content…
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, know as Fidel Castro, a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as its Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as its President from 1976 to 2008. Castro, displayed great qualities as a leader but one that standed out to me that involved him being a community organizer was what the book describes a “Tactically Agile: Masters the Decision of the moment”(Page. 137). The book describes a Tactically Agile quality to be someone