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Hey Naomi Klein : You and What Movement?
Barack Obama, community organizer.You and What Movement?A Response to Naomi Klein Revealing a bizarre contempt and college-educated condescension toward a vast multi-racial swathe of progressive supporters and sympathizers of Obama and his movement, Klein seeks to explain us away as … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Organizing, Obama Presidency, Progressive Movement, The Left
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The GOP’s Blame-ACORN Game
Graphic by Christopher Serra / The Nation.‘Since the 1970s ACORN, which has 400,000 low- and moderate-income “member families,” has been warning Congress to protect borrowers from the banking industry’s irresponsible, risky and predatory practices.’By Peter Dreier & John Atlas / … Continue reading
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Tagged ACORN, Banking, Campaign Tactics, Community Organizing, Finance, Racism, Republican Party, Social Action, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration
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ACORN and ‘Voter Fraud’ : Bogus Issue Missreported
Top: ACORN voter registrar in New Mexico. Photo by Clayton Kennedy / ACORN. Above: Nevada investigators raid Las Vegas ACORN office looking for evidence of ‘voter fraud.’ Photo by J.C. Hong / AP.Media revive pattern of reporting on alleged “voter … Continue reading
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Tagged ACORN, Campaign Tactics, Community Organizing, Media, Media Distortion, November Election, Republican Party, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration
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Community Organizers Fight Back
After graduating college, Barack Obama worked for three years, first in Harlem and then in Chicago, as a community organizer.‘Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy’September 4, 2008 Community organizers across America, taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Organizing, Economic Collapse, Obama, Republican Convention, Sarah Palin
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The Fight Against Gentrification in Harlem
Photo by Thomas Good / NLN.The battle for the soul of El Barrio By Thomas Good / August 26, 2008 NEW YORK — In November of 2006, City Council member Melissa Mark Viverito spoke out against police commissioner Ray Kelly’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Organizing, Gentrification, Harlem, New York, Social Action
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ART : Burning Man 2008
Obelisk with cutaway view of interior. Design by Rod Garrett and Larry Harvey. Illustration by Jack Haye and Rod Garrett. Burning Man 2008Monday, Aug. 25 – Monday, Sep. 1, 2008Black Rock City, Nevada The Burning Man project has grown from … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, Ceremony, Community Organizing, Folk Art, Happenings, Performance Art, Ritual, Sculpture
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Barack Obama and the Tradition of Community Organizing
Saul Alinsky, a major architect of the community organizing concept. Photo from cover of Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy by Sanford D. Horwitt. The following article by Peter Drier from Dissent online discusses the … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Community Organizing, History, Obama, Presidential Campaign, The Left
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