[Dialogue] Alinsky & Freire and ICA's approach

[Martin Gilbraith (ICA:UK)]

we'll do our best Jim! - see www.ica-uk.org.uk

best wishes,
Martin

On 18/01/2011 17:39, James Wiegel wrote:
> You can Only share provided you make some good contribution to 
> communities there.  :)
>
> Jim Wiegel
> Jfwiegel at yahoo.com <mailto:Jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 9:52, "Martin Gilbraith (ICA:UK)" 
> <martin at ica-uk.org.uk <mailto:martin at ica-uk.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>> many thanks all, this has been very insightful.  I attach a 
>> compilation of your responses in Word, with bold added by me to 
>> highlight some key themes.  I'd welcome any further thoughts, 
>> recollections or references.
>>
>> In the meantime I hope contributors are happy for me to share this 
>> with ICA:UK colleagues here.  best wishes,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/01/2011 15:46, Martin Gilbraith (ICA:UK) wrote:
>>> Hi everyone, I am hoping that colleagues with longer memories might 
>>> be able to help me with some history please...
>>>
>>> The 'big idea' of the UK's new coalition government is Big Society - 
>>> variously, applauded as empowering the people, and/or derided as a 
>>> cynical cover for devastating public spending cuts - see 
>>> http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/policy-campaigns-research/big-society/big-society
>>>
>>> A major initiative within this agenda is a forthcoming 
>>> Government-funded programme to train and support a cadre of 5,000 
>>> Community Organisers, explicitly based on the principles of Saul 
>>> Alinsky and Paulo Friere - see 
>>> http://www.urbanforum.org.uk/briefings/community-organisers-briefing
>>>
>>> I beleive that Friere was an influence on the early development of 
>>> EI/ICA's methods and approach, and I understand that Alinsky was 
>>> developing Community Organising in Chicago around the same time as 
>>> EI/ICA was in Fifth City.
>>>
>>> What I would really like to learn more about is *to what extent and 
>>> how did Friere and/or Alinsky influence the develpment of EI/ICA and 
>>> our methods and approach; and **to what extent and how might our 
>>> methods and approach have influenced the development of Community 
>>> Organising?
>>> *
>>> My partner Derek put this same question, more or less, to George 
>>> Packard several years ago when he was here in the UK just after 
>>> Derek had taken a course in Faith-based Community Organising through 
>>> his local Unitarian church - but I don't much remember what he said, 
>>> and I'd love to have any more specific recollections and (better 
>>> still) any documents that might be relevant.
>>>
>>> I am hoping this might inform how we seek to position ICA:UK in 
>>> relation to this emerging new agenda, and that I might draft an 
>>> article (for ICA:UK Network News if not also elsewhere) based on 
>>> what I receive.
>>>
>>> many thanks for any recollections or insights you can offer, best 
>>> wishes,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> *Martin Gilbraith*<martin at ica-uk.org.uk <mailto:martin at ica-uk.org.uk>>
>>>
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>> *Martin Gilbraith*<martin at ica-uk.org.uk <mailto:martin at ica-uk.org.uk>>
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>> The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) - a global network of 
>> autonomous not-for-profit organisations in 30 countries
>> /"concerned with  the  human  factor  in  world development"/
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>> <icadialogue Freire & Alinsky.doc>
>> <15 Tasks of CD.pdf>
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*Martin Gilbraith*<martin at ica-uk.org.uk <mailto:martin at ica-uk.org.uk>>

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mobile: +44 (0)7876 722712

*Chief Executive, ICA:UK*
registered charity #1090745 & company limited by guarantee #3970365
registered in England & Wales, at 41 Old Birley Street, Manchester M15 5RF
tel/fax: +44 (0)845 450 0305 or +44 (0)161 232 8444 - _www.ica-uk.org.uk 
<http://www.ica-uk.org.uk/>_

The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) - a global network of autonomous 
not-for-profit organisations in 30 countries
/"concerned with  the  human  factor  in  world development"/

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The International Association of Facilitators – _www.iaf-world.org_

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