We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

That was the consistent message throughout the Gamaliel national leadership training for community organizers that I attended last week. Barack Obama was trained as a Gamaliel organizer. A tough program -- complete with boot camp-style agitation -- that truly challenged me to devise my plan to make a real impact on this world. Turning mere rhetoric into action. By the end of the week, we were mentally and emotionally exhausted, but grateful for it. Then we were privileged to be "sent out into the world" by a plenary session with Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (now United Farm Workers) in 1962 with Cesar Chavez and has been fighting for human rights ever since. 77 and still feisty!

As they say in South Africa, "WOZANI!!" - people coming together to fight for justice. Here I come!