Mark Santow

Aug 28, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Mark Santow |Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Melissa Florer-Bixler

I cut my teeth in Saul Alinsky–style organizing with COPS/Metro Alliance, a San Antonio affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, which Alinsky founded in Chicago in 1939. IAF fosters a form of broad-based institutional organizing that works by creating community-based alliances to advocate for social, political, racial, and economic justice.