Describe and Analyzing an Organizing Campaign "Take Back the Land" and answer the following questions:
• What is the problem experienced by members of the community?
• What is the issue in the campaign?
• Who are the constituents affected by the issue?
• Who are the leaders of the campaign? How would you describe what leadership development looked like in this campaign?
• Who is the target of the campaign?
• What strategies did the campaign use?
• What are some demands of the organizing campaign? Are there demands you think they could/should have made but didn't?
• What actions did you think were effective? Why?
• What are the roles of any professional organizers or staff? How is their role different from that of constituent leaders, and how do they carry out their roles? Who are allies and what is their role? Who defines their role/how is it defined?
• What kinds of choices does the organization face in developing, planning and implementing this campaign? How did members, leaders, and staff address these choices?
• In your view, how effective was this campaign, according to the goals of community organizing (such as building a base of power, winning concrete demands)?
• How would you describe the political analysis (think back to our discussions on the political economy) of the organization? Do you think their analysis was correct? If not, what shortcomings did you identify? How did their analysis influence their strategic decisions (please use examples here if you can)?
• What social or political impact do you think this campaign had or could have had? Do you think they were able to shift power in the long term?