#Community Organizing

Organized Love: Steady Hands Build Justice

Consequently, turning love into justice means building structures that learn. Marshall Ganz’s organizing cycle emphasizes story, strategy, and action with measurable goals (Harvard Kennedy School), helping teams track wins, failures, and pivots. Campaigns that map power, cultivate leaders, and evaluate outcomes convert moral clarity into public change—policies passed, budgets reallocated, protections enforced. In this way, the feeling that begins in the heart becomes a scaffold others can climb. Love sets the aim; steady hands build the staircase and check each step. [...]

Everyone a Potential Activist, Every Minute Counts

Finally, lasting change requires hope disciplined by care. When Arizona officials told organizers “No se puede” in 1972, Huerta replied, “Sí, se puede,” offering a practical optimism that sustains effort through setbacks. Hope, however, must travel with rest, safety, and mutual support—because burned-out organizers cannot build durable institutions. Therefore, integrating care into schedules and structures is not indulgence; it is strategy. With this balance, Huerta’s credo becomes a daily rhythm: we take the next small step, invite one more person, and leave each space stronger than we found it. Over time, those small steps redraw the map of what seems possible. [...]