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Michael Gecan

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Michael Gecan is a community organizer in New York City affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation.[1][2] He was trained in part by Saul Alinsky.[3] He is lead organizer for East Brooklyn Congregations and other New York-based organizations.[4] He is the executive director of United Power for Action and Justice, a Chicago Based Industrial Area Foundation affiliate. He is the author of Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action (Anchor Books, 2004). ISBN 1-4000-7649-8.[5]

Gecan has authored pieces on the Democratic Party in The Washington Post,[6] contemporary politics in New York Daily News,[7] a series on populism and the Tea Party for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,[8][9][10] among others.

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