North Haledon, New Jersey. North Haledon is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 8,417, reflecting an increase of 497 (+6.3%) from the 7,920 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 67 (-0.8%) from the 7,987 counted in the 1990 Census.
1 A social movement is an organized group that acts consciously to promote or resist change through collective action (Goldberg, 1991). 2  Because social movements have not become institutionalized and are outside the political mainstream, they offer outsiders an opportunity to have their voices heard.
Community organizing. Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest. Unlike those who promote more-consensual community building, community organizers generally assume that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless. Community organizing has as a core goal the generation of durable power for an organization representing the communi