Community organizing runs the same risk as ‘community action’ – encouraging aggression, competition, and survival of the loudest. We need community development to ensure all parts of the community are empowered and the powerful don’t further oppress scape-goated communities. Equalities is not a luxury item – we need to monitor new services to ensure they are accessible by all. If we want to make sure community organizers are pursuing equality and social justice for all, we have to turn community organizing into community development, with training in community development values, principles and inclusive methods. By working closely with new community organizers we can avoid a stupid competition; they mustn’t become another silo transplanted into communities. We need them to become part of neighbourhood alliances, under the control of communities. (Community Development Exchange, 2010)