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Blog: Power through Organizing: Lessons from the Field (1)

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Before nuke plant

How often do you get the chance to take in wisdom garnered through decades of smart organizing work?

In 1979, from a remote summer camp cabin in the Berkshire mountains, nineteen-year-old Al Giordano started organizing the Rowe Nuclear Conversion Campaign. Thirty-two years later, he's back in the same summer camp to share with us, lucky few, some of his best stories. A rare treat; not many organizers lasted as many seasons, or make the effort to patiently share their crop of battle-tested insights.