“True progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability...it does not happen with the mere passage of time, from one day to the next or one year to the next. True progress occurs when people make a decision to work together, march together and fight together.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
The Organizing Institute for Democracy is a 501c3 non-profit organization created to develop and implement the best models and practices for member engagement to build power for unions, nonprofits and community based organizations.
The OID was born out of the successful historic campaign to recall Senate President Russell Pearce - author of SB 1070, the anti-immigrant law passed in 2010 (learn more here), and two additional campaigns to hold Sheriff Arpaio accountable by removing him from office.
Citizens, not politicians or political parties, spearheaded these efforts and successfully dismantled Arizona’s anti-immigrant machine for over a decade.
