One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that...Maybe I’m showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way.
Check this out. I ran across it this morning. It is a collection of newsletters of the Detroit Local DSA. It has a lot of interesting names in it and is like a playbook for the Obama campaign.
http://kincaidsite.com/dsa/nl-archive.html
Btw there is something in it that could be useful to Rush. Is there anyone that can e-mail him?