What community organising actually means
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Community organising is the deliberate work of building relationships among people who share a common concern, so that their combined effort carries more weight than any of them could manage individually. It treats organised people as the primary resource a campaign draws on, rather than money or media alone, since neither of those can substitute for genuine collective will.
This distinguishes organising from simply running an event or issuing a public statement, since organising is fundamentally about the relationships built along the way, relationships that outlast any single action and can be called on again the next time collective effort is needed for a different, unrelated concern entirely.
Done well, organising leaves a community more capable than it was before, with stronger connections and more confidence in its own ability to act, whether or not the immediate campaign that sparked the organising ultimately succeeds in getting exactly what it originally asked for from decision makers.