How it was organized Community organizing is a key intervention that social workers engage in and is recognized as many international social work federations. The goals of community organizing, especially neighborhood-based organizing, vary, but generally include forming groups; achieve social justice by obtaining, maintaining or restructuring power; develop alternative institutions; and the maintenance or revitalization of neighborhoods (Kuyek, 2011). In the wake of devastating flooding following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, community organizing thrives. Part of this organizing involves addressing and transforming racial and class inequalities. As mentioned above, local groups and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have undertaken these social development processes and have emerged as a new grassroots effort. Typically, trained community organizers and policy advocates are the group most capable of promoting the needs of marginalized citizens who are displaced (Pyles, 2007). They need to understand how policies are made and implemented, how to influence the process, how to process their own issues, and how to recognize the limitations of institutions, as well as the local cultural and historical factors that can influence these processes. Above all, those most affected have been displaced, thus affecting their normal social networks. During the hurricane communications were affected; cell phones didn't work properly and landlines didn't work. On the bright side, the people who hit rock bottom and survived are the most important ones to consider when organizing after a disaster (Kuyek, 2011). Many of the people called upon to organize had never engaged in community organizing,… middle of paper… things like a natural disaster: race, class, and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge. Kuyek, J. (2011). Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing. Miller, L. (2012). Controlling disasters: Recognizing latent objectives after Hurricane Katrina. Texas: Sam Houston State University. Piano, D. (2010). Review: Jordan Falherty. Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. New Orleans: Haymarket Books.Pyles, L. (2007). Community organization for post-disaster social development. Social Work International, 50(3), 321-333.Trivedi, J. (2011). Encyclopedia of disaster relief. In Hurricane Katrina (pp. 1-9). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. Whyche, K. F. (2011). Exploring community resilience in first responder workforce communities serving Katrina survivors. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81(1), 18-30.