EP 1 - Gordon Whitman Breaks Down Community Organizing

In this first episode of Who Belongs?, we talk to Gordon Whitman, who is the deputy director of Faith In Action, formerly known as PICO, which is a national network of faith-based organizations working to build civic leaders to uplift communities through work on a broad set of issues. Gordon recently published a book on organizing, called ‘Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire’. The book, which is available in both English and Spanish, draws from his 25 years of experience as a community organizer in different parts of the country, as well as from a year abroad in Chile during Pinochet dictatorship, where Gordon says he learned the most important things about organizing. Learn more about Gordon's book here: https://standupbook.org/ To watch a video of a book talk Gordon gave at UC Berkeley visit this page: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/gordon-whitman-pico-conversation-john-powell

For a transcript of the episode, please click here: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/podcast-gordon-whitman-breaks-down-community-organizing