EDITORIALS

One of the biggest challenges for successful organizing at the grassroots level is to overcome what is known as the collective action problem. In collective action theory public goods are things that, once made available, can be enjoyed by everyone. People cannot be excluded just because they did not contribute. An example is a municipal park. Assuming there is not a fence with a gatekeeper, no one can be excluded from it whether or not they contributed to the costs of provid