What are the duties and responsibilities of a community organizer?

Question

What are the duties and responsibilities of a community organizer?

Answer 1

Probably more than say a governor of crappy state not even attached to the rest of the country, physically, mentally or politically.

Answer 2

As a former community organizer back in the late 70's, here's a brief run down. First order of business is ensuring that the poor always get a steady flow of handouts, bussed to and fro and meet with politicans that keep making promises. And you keep feeding them the line that republicans are the party of the rich. You help them register to vote and hope they go democrat. Usually and for the most part they go democrat. You help pay their heating oil and their lights with tax payer money. You go to the govenor's office at least twice a year requesting more tax payer funding. You create a few very low paying jobs, and you come out smelling like a rose, all tax payer funded. Then you wake up one morning sick to your stomach because you realize all you have been doing is encouraging the lazy to continue their path of self destruction at a tax payer expense. And then you wonder why your pay check is so small.

Community Organizer for 3 years. Then I just simply walked away never looking back.

Answer 3

To make yourself look like you are busy and fool of responsibilities, know it's just an act because in the end....what's going to happen if you quit? Not a thing. You spend most of your time trying to get people to do your bidding. You guilt them into doing what you want them to do by trying to say "do it for your community" and "do what's right" and other nonsensical dribble. That must be why so many liberal are big into community organizations! It's on the job training!!

Answer 4

from: http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/...

    Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent's work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.  She belittled Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's experience as a community organizer in Catholic parishes on the South Side of Chicago, work he undertook instead of pursuing a lucrative career on Wall Street.  In her acceptance speech, Ms. Palin said, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."  Community organizing is at the heart of Catholic Social Teaching to end poverty and promote social justice.  

So here is what Giuliani and Palin didn't know: Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed on the south side of Chicago. They hired Obama to help those stunned people recover and get the services they needed--job training, help with housing and so forth--from the local government. It was, dare I say it, the Lord's work--the sort of mission Jesus preached (as opposed to the war in Iraq, which Palin described as a "task from God.")

This is what Palin and Giuliani were mocking. They were making fun of a young man's decision "to serve a cause greater than himself," in the words of John McCain. They were, therefore, mocking one of their candidate's favorite messages. Obama served the poor for three years, then went to law school. To describe this service--the first thing he did out of college, the sort of service every college-educated American should perform, in some form or other--as anything other than noble is cheap and tawdry and cynical in the extreme.