Posted on 05/08/2009 9:20:44 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
Alec Baldwin narrates the story of legendary community organizer, Saul Alinsky, and his modern-day legacy.
"The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy," narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, examines the life and legacy of the controversial community organizer Alinsky and his modern-day legacy.
The first half of the program chronicles the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky and three key Alinsky organizations to show how his techniques developed over time including The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, in Chicago's blighted stockyards in the 1930's. By forming an unprecedented coalition between the Catholic Church and the Meatpackers Union, Alinsky was able to force several landmark concessions from the meatpacking industry. These three organizations show how Alinsky's ideas, in turn, influenced the civil rights movement, the farmworkers struggle and many Vietnam era political protests...
Certainly we should know what our opponents are up to, to educate ourselves in the strategies that facilitated our losing ground. Patton didn’t study Rommel to join him.
I just finished “Rules for Radicals”. Useful tips abound throughout. Every serious minded conservative needs to read it. That book is their template so we had better understand it. Completely.
...which left Chicago decades ago, for other cities, because the unions ruined the deal for both the employers and for the employees. Not to mention, for the city, too.
Well, that worked out well for everyone, didn't it? I'll bet that Ø chases jobs and businesses away from America, just as Alinsky's Rules chased jobs and businesses out of Chicago.
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