Today, we continue our Meet a Community Organization series by taking a look at another storied and dynamic community organizing network: National People's Action. You can go their main website by typing in http://www.npa-us.org/.
Based in Chicago, National People's Action is a diverse community organizing network of 24 community organizations from around the nation attempting to bring social and economic justice to Washington through a proactive agenda. They push national issues such as housing, immigration, worker and tenant rights, healthcare, the environment, and education reform. Some recent victories include helping to get about 80 percent of applied citizenship applications processed before the election and scoring meetings with key officials such as Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke.
They post several videos on their site detailing their work both successes and failures. This is a no frills, bare bones community organizing effort 100 percent focused on the results of their work.
You can reach NPA at 312.243.3035
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