Reweaving the Social Fabric

Published in Kettering Review, Summer 1996 — and in Boston Review, 1994, "Reweaving the Social Fabric" is an account by Ernesto Cortés Jr.' of how the IAF's Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS) rebuilds civic and political power in San Antonio by restitching relationships across churches, schools, and neighborhoods, embodying his own oft-repeated organizing principle that "all organizing is re-organizing."