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Manchester mourns the loss of a leader . . .
          Reflections on the life of Mr. Willie Miles

I met Mr. Willie in the Spring of 2011. I was working with Karen Juall, the teacher of an early childhood literacy program based in Elmwood Gardens to do some leadership training for parents in Elmwood. She told me there was someone I had to meet, someone who had been working to improve the community for many years, someone she called Mr. Willie.

Mr. Willie was a natural organizer. He had relationships with nearly every household in this community of over 200 families. He and I hit it off immediately and began working together to educate and inform residents of their rights as tenants of public housing, to fight for more services and better police protection for the community and to encourage residents to take action on their own behalf. We developed an Elmwood Gardens Leadership group, made up of residents who had been through an eight session GSOP designed leadership training series. One of the projects the leadership group came up with was community walks. For two years, members of the leadership would . . . read more »

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