Michael Gecan is a community organizer in New York City 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
- ^ "In a Sea of Foreclosures, an Island of Calm" - New York Times
- ^ "Church and community: churches push for change" - Ocala Star-Banner
- ^ "Long Down on Its Heels, a Community Looks Up" - New York Times
- ^ "Building Public Power" - Village Voice
- ^ Gecan, Michael (December 29, 2004). "In a clueless party". The Washington Post.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gecan, Michael (February 28, 2011). "The Tea Party isn't radical enough". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ Gecan, Michael (February 24, 2011). "Freedom and the meaning of the Tea Party". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ Gecan, Michael (February 23, 2011). "Freedom from and what it means to be an American". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.