Community Organizing Resource List

For our Chicago Neighborhood Check-In: Community Organizing, we’re discussing how organizers mobilize their communities and acquire the resources needed to impact government decision-making. Learn more about the past and present of community organizing with these suggested resources from our panelists:

Photograph of Andrea Ortiz-Landin.

Andrea Ortiz-Landin, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC)

• Facebook
• Instagram: @bpncchicago
• Twitter: @BPNCchicago
• BPNC Campaigns: #CopsOutCPS and BAN — Black Abolitionist Network (#TreatmentNotTrauma #DefundCPD)

Photograph of Elizabeth Todd-Breland.

Elizabeth Todd-Breland, PhD:

• A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s, Elizabeth Todd-Breland (UNC Press 2018)
• Vivian G. Harsh Collection of African-American History and Literature at the Woodson Regional Library
• 1963 Public School Anti-Segregation Boycott Curriculum and ‘63 Boycott film

Photograph of Alderwoman Jeanette B. Taylor.

Alderwoman Jeanette B. Taylor, 20th Ward

• Facebook
• Twitter: @J1Ramann

Photograph of Lisa Yun Lee.

Lisa Yun Lee, National Public Housing Museum

• Lincoln Park: Fire Fire Gentrifier!: A self-guided walking tour of the history of LIncoln Park and the fight for equitable development by the Young Lords and the First Rainbow Coalition.
• Invitation, Jen Delos Reyes: Two poem fragments by June Jordan and Mary Oliver installed on 40 foot banners at the National Public Housing Museum's future permanent site, the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes.
• NPHM 36 Questions for Civic Love Tool Kit: Invite someone to engage in a 30 minute conversation with you to grow Civic Love.

Join us on November 11th for our Chicago Neighborhood Check-In: Community Organizing!

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