Michael Gecan

Michael Gecan is a community organizer in New York affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation.^[1] He was trained in part by Saul Alinsky.^[2] He is lead organizer for East Brooklyn Congregations and other New York based organizations.^[3] He is the executive director of United Power for Action and Justice, a Chicago Based Industrial Area Foundation affiliate. He is the author of Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action (Anchor Books, 2004). ISBN 1-4000-7649-8.^[4]

Gecan has authored pieces on the Democratic Party in The Washington Post,^[5] contemporary politics in New York Daily News,^[6] a series on populism and the Tea Party for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,^[7][8][9] among others.

References

1. ^ "In a Sea of Foreclosures, an Island of Calm" - New York Times
2. ^ "Church and community: churches push for change" - Ocala Star-Banner
3. ^ "Long Down on Its Heels, a Community Looks Up" - New York Times
4. ^ "Building Public Power" - Village Voice
5. ^ Gecan, Michael (December 29, 2004). "In a clueless party". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32586-2004Dec28.html. 
6. ^ Gecan, Michael (August 7, 2011). "The grand canyon: Our leaders can't fix the economy because they live in opposing fantasy lands". New York Daily News. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-07/news/29878473_1_cook-county-democratic-machine-white-house-culture-william-daley. 
7. ^ Gecan, Michael (February 28, 2011). "The Tea Party isn't radical enough". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/02/28/3150904.htm. 
8. ^ Gecan, Michael (February 24, 2011). "Freedom and the meaning of the Tea Party". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/02/24/3147957.htm. 
9. ^ Gecan, Michael (February 23, 2011). "Freedom from and what it means to be an American". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/02/23/3146934.htm. 

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