Lets list the great community organizers

I want to create a data base of community organizers to throw in the repukes faces when they start to critize the work.

...Martin Luther King. The bus boycott which helped set the Civil Rights Movement in motion is a key example.

SA - Sons Of Liberty Revolutionary war. Lemuel Haynes Abolitionist, Green Mountain Boy, Congregational Minister (Revolutionary war pre, during, and post}
Fredrick Douglass, Sojourner Truth abolitionists...publishers and writers and supporters of women's rights. Susan B. Anthony abolitionist and women' rights leader. Jane Goodall environmentalist, primatologist (Roots and Shoots is her environmental work for children).

Clara Barton - Founder of the American Red Cross
William Booth - Founder of the Salvation Army
Reverend Edgar J. Helms - Founder of Goodwill Industries
Doris Irene Taylor - Founder of Meals-on-Wheels
J. Calvitt Clarke, a Presbyterian minister - Founder of Christian Children's Fund
Eleanor Kidd - Founder of SPCA
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - UNICEF Founder
Danny Thomas - Founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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read, write, ACT now: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3938685

was started by a group of men organizing communities to fight for independence? By Palin's standard - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams were not qualified to be president because they were community organizers.

In 1776 - a group of community organizers signed the Declaration of Independence:

John Adams
Samuel Adams
Josiah Bartlett
Carter Braxton
Charles Carroll
Samuel Chase
Abraham Clark
George Clymer
William Ellery
William Floyd
Benjamin Franklin
Elbridge Gerry
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
John Hancock
Benjamin Harrison
John Hart
Joseph Hewes
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
William Hooper
Stephen Hopkins
Francis Hopkinson
Samuel Huntington
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Richard Henry Lee
Francis Lewis
Philip Livingston
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Thomas McKean
Arthur Middleton
Lewis Morris
Robert Morris
John Morton
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
William Paca
Robert Treat Paine
John Penn
George Read
Caesar Rodney
George Ross
Benjamin Rush
Edward Rutledge
Roger Sherman
James Smith
Richard Stockton
Thomas Stone
George Taylor
Matthew Thornton
George Walton
William Whipple
William Williams
James Wilson
John Witherspoon
Oliver Wolcott
George Wythe

Community Organizers of the Constitutional Convention:
John Hancock
Abraham Baldwin
Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
John Blair
William Blount
David Brearly
Jacob Broom
Pierce Butler
Daniel Carroll
George Clymer
Jonathan Dayton
John Dickinson
William Few
Thomas Fitzsimons
Benjamin Franklin
Nicholas Gilman
Nathaniel Gorham
Alexander Hamilton
Jared Ingersoll
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
William Samuel Johnson
Rufus King
John Langdon
William Livingston
James Madison
James McHenry
Thomas Mifflin
Gouverneur Morris
Robert Morris
William Paterson
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
George Read
John Rutledge
Roger Sherman
Richard Dobbs Spaight
George Washington (president of the Convention)
Hugh Williamson
James Wilson
William Jackson (Secretary)

Volunteering 61 Million Strong;
http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/press/press_releases.cfm

Washington D.C. – The most comprehensive research on U.S. volunteering ever assembled shows volunteering in America is strong and poised for growth, as momentum for service grows across the sectors and the need for volunteers is heightened by the economic downturn.

Nearly 61 million Americans volunteered in their communities in 2007 giving 8.1 billion hours of service worth more than $158 billion to America’s communities, according to the Volunteering in America report released today by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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