Subject: Organizing
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As we approach Tuesday’s historic election, we can count on one clear fact that the political pundits likely will overlook in their election night coverage—no matter what the outcome, the state of our economy will necessitate a role for community…
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Just picked this up from the Jed Report:
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It might have been that brick to the head as a child (long story), but it was October 6 before I realized the second McCain-Obama debate was October 7. By then I had committed the debate-evening to an Obama phone…
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Yesterday I posted here on Rooflines to explain the back-story behind the latest round of accusations about ACORN and voter fraud. Today, the McCain-Palin campaign released the Web ad below attacking Barack Obama for his ties to ACORN. It’s important…
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With less than one month left until Election Day, the Republican Party voter repression machine is at it again and once again, its target is ACORN.
Nationwide, ACORN has registered over 1.3 million voters (most of them from low-income, African-American…
CNN this morning reported that grass-roots groups are organizing demonstrations across the country against what they’re calling the Bush administration’s “cash for trash” bailout plan. According to today’s Boston Globe, yesterday there were demonstrations on Boston Common, at the N.Y.…
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When present and former public officials ranging from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary under President Clinton, started calling for the creation of a new agency that would buy the almost worthless assets from…
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Peter Dreier’s most recent Rooflines post cited a story titled “Community Organizing Changed Fishery,” in which John Corrigan, the fishing writer for the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, explained that “anybody who has caught a fish at Sewalls Falls over the last…
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Let’s take a closer look at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s record on community organizing. It seems, as I said in my previous Rooflines post, that she was for community organizing before she was against it. From the State…
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Very enlightening : I came across an article today on the Minnesota Independent, an online news source, titled Palin’s Maligning Aside, Alaska’s Rife with Community Organizers. Among other tidbits, we learn from reporter Chris Steller that Palin’s state government is…
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In a column on September 14, titled “Community Organizing Changed Fishery,” John Corrigan, the fishing writer for the Concord Monitor, explained that “anybody who has caught a fish at Sewalls Falls over the last two decades has witnessed the value…
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Here’s a great example of the law of unintended consequences: The McCain campaign’s sour, distortive targeting of community organizing in an attempt to marginalize Barack Obama as “un-American”—or as New York Gov. David Paterson and others have suggested, using “community…
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Am I the only one who’s eager to see the outcome when John McCain appears at the same forum with Barack Obama on 9/11 to discuss “their views on service and civic engagement in post-9/11 America”? Yes, it’s the same…
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I kind of knew it before, but watching John McCain’s speech as I write, it’s easy to see how the GOP VP pick Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday was planned to be the shock-paddle portion of the McCain campaign. But…
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The pushback from around the country is bracing. No sooner did NHI president John Atlas post on Rooflines, setting the record straight on community organizing, we started to hear from incensed readers from around the country. It looks like the…
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As John Atlas has pointed out, the GOP strategy on Wednesday night was to have vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani try to discredit the purpose, effect, and overall worth of community organizing…
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Ronald Reagan famously said the government is the problem, not the solution, and touted the importance of our civil society. Now we hear the party of Reagan touting government experience over that of community organizers—the people who strengthen our civic…
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I came across a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe written by L. David Alinsky, son of community-organizing pioneer Saul Alinsky. It’s worth reading what the son has to say about his father’s disciple, Barack Obama: All the…
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Bill Clinton stepped up the other night and did what he needed to do if the Dems want to win this election: he threw down for Barack Obama and said unequivocally that Obama belongs in the White House. He also…
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The last few months has seen a number of articles, editorials, and interviews about the lack of financial responsiveness and accountability in the private and public sector. In recent years, we’ve read about financial scandals at institutions as diverse Halliburton…
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