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Why Don't We All Know How to Organize Our Communities?

Have Fun - Do Good

Land near their home in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area had been acquired for petroleum drilling exploration. Use the Internet to get people to meet offline. The Dean campaign used Meetup to organize its offline meetings. A couple weeks ago my mom told me that they'd heard some disturbing news.

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has been passionate about the issue of immigrant rights since 2002, when she worked at Casa del Migrantes in Tijuana, Mexico, a shelter for immigrants and deportees. After she left Mexico she worked with refugee communities in Philadelphia and did research on migrant youth at a research center in Chicago. Cross-posted at BlogHer