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February 20, 2007
A GCI Seminar |
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| Title |
Saul Alinsky in Berlin? Citizen Organizing in
Modern Germany |
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| Speaker |
Thomas Lenz
Lead Organizer
Lake County United
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| Location |
Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
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Community Organizing,
with its roots in Depression-era Chicago, is typically
understood as a distinctly American form of civic engagement.
The last decade has seen “American-style”
community organizing attempted in both England and Germany.
In fact, December 2006 saw the creation of the “German
Institute for Community Organizing” in Berlin.
What does organizing look like in today’s
Germany? What kinds of institutions get involved and why?
And perhaps most important, does community organizing
work in a social and political context much different
than America’s?
Thomas
Lenz is Lead Organizer of Lake County United,
a citizen’s organization in north suburban Chicago
and a former Fellow of the Great Cities Institute. He
is also a consultant to the German Institute for Community
Organizing.
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