Housing Activist/Community Organizer Responds To Republican Mockery

An excerpt from the first post of the newly published blog, Community Organizers Fight Back, contains the response from a housing activist / community organizer to the mockery directed at community organizers from those at last week's Republican National Convention:

• “Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan. “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers. But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home. If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.”

For more, see Community Organizers Fight Back.