Local Grassroots Organzing Key to Building Effective Progressive Movement

Tweet Portion of interview on Democracy Now:
CHIP BERLET: Well, that grassroots organizing is key and that too many political organizations and progressive social movement organizations have given up on door-to-door kind of neighborhood organizing and local organizing, and that really, when it comes to the real social change, that grassroots organizing makes the difference. Social movements pull political parties in their direction when they’re strong. If you don’t have a powerful progressive movement, it doesn’t matter how much you want the Democrats to do what you want them to do.

Berlet is Senior analyst at Political Research Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts. He wrote the book ‘Running Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right, Values Voters and the Culture Wars in 2006,’ - with Pam Chamberlain.

Makes sense to me.