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| Clinton Urling on Community Organizing Day 3 BCLT. |
WEEK TWO
Day 3 of the BCLT got off the a smooth and early start on the morning of June 14th, 2014. The session commenced with discussions of whether there was a distinction between community service and community organising, and what was that distinction. Urling, in his presentation, firstly explained that Community Organising was "the bringing together of people in a community to engage in actions and make demands in a collective voice to powerful individuals and groups in order to improve the lives and conditions of their community and constituencies."
By the end of the session, it was noted the distinction could be explained as community organising's
most basic goal being to bring about social change, which community service restricted this goal since it fails to deal with the underlying issues that are cause by polarised interests.
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