
S4 E12: More Democracy
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The Difference Between Community Organizing and Political Action
On election night, we were behind by eight %. But as those mail and ballots started coming in, we inched up and inched up. And we won that election by about four per centnd We actually won across the city where only one of the candidates that amazon had backed in the election actually won their seat. So we had a huge victory in that election. Seems to me there's not any kind of hard distinction between community organizing in the broad sense and political activism that focuses on elections. In so many other ways too, people can and do find ways to get heard and apply pressure.
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