It got my attention the “tactic” that Osson use during the article.. specially in regards to social movement.  The tactic is: Forming coalitions or alliances with other groups, during my career i was able to organize a coaliton called Cafe Latino. It started with 2 agencies getting together to plan community activities  that would help people with social problems and achieve no goals. Our goal was to find resources to help no income families. We were able to get banks insurance companies, health department to get involved and donate Their time and their incentives. We had riad blocks in the way,  such as members of some communities refusing to host events for us because we were Latinos even though the services were for everyone. We had to write a letter to the city in order to get permission to do a small health fair. It involves getting people in politics to help and get us permission to do such events twice a year.  By forming at coalition  I was able to communicate with more than 15 agencies in the city and have them commit for more than 5 years of volunteer services and now networking one and other, joining forces and continuing services with the city’s permision, today Cafe Latino Coalition is on its 6th year stronger and with more than 20 participant agencies. I believe that when a group of people put their time, ideas and efforts together, a lot could be accomplished.

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