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WORC Founder Pat Sweeney Leaves Organization as Senior Adviser

After five decades of shaping grassroots organizing in the West and High Plains, Pat Sweeney is stepping away from WORC but continuing the fight for democracy. Pat Sweeney, WORC’s founder and long-time director, casts a long shadow in the West’s community organizing and political organizing space. After helping to start the Northern Plains Resource Council in 1972 and building the organization over the decade, Pat became WORC’s first director in…