Ben Weinthal, the lead organizer for Local 966, said, "Money that could be used in the community is being directed to breaking the union."

His father had been the lead organizer in chartering Security State Bank in 1957.

Kim Zalent, the lead organizer, said members have agreed to pay yearly fees of $500 to $3,500.

On Sept. 19, Bob Cerritelli, the lead organizer, was dismissed.

Sojourners served as one of the lead organizers for an advocacy track at Urbana, the largest evangelical youth missions conference in the United States.

In the last few months, the group's lead organizer has left, and its presence on campus has diminished.

"The performance standards we're advocating would make them last another 48 years," said Rick Shnitzler, the group's lead organizer and an urban planning consultant in Philadelphia.

In mid-1988, Boudreau was a lead organizer for a protest march against any weakening of Quebec's language laws.

He also became the lead organizer of an underground organization there, intending to prepare an escape of the prisoners.

"These workers are at the low end of the totem pole," said John Kest, Acorn's lead organizer.

Today many more men show up each day, competing for fewer jobs, said David Ayala, lead organizer at the center.

And in some places, it seemed to work, said Rene Barrios, lead organizer for the Metropolitan Organization, a chapter of a group that monitors public services.

Lee Stuart, lead organizer for the group that built the houses, said the wall had once been city property.

Joe Morris, lead organizer, spent weeks at a computer crunching numbers.

"It's a spectacular victory," said Ben Weinthal, lead organizer for Local 966.

"We knew it was hard," said Joe Morris, lead organizer at Lower Manhattan Together, a community group that helped with the church's effort.

"It was so hard to get it cleaned up and they have already started throwing bottles in there," said Maria Molina, lead organizer of the tenant group.

"It gives the superintendent a push to act," said Sister Kathy Maire, lead organizer for East Brooklyn Congregations.

His best known work is Halsted Street which he produced when a member and lead organizer in the Chicago Workers' Film & Photo League.

Ai-Jen Poo, lead organizer for Domestic Workers United, a labor group, said, "Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers," good or bad.