These people were mostly in their late 20s and early 30s. A couple were in their 40s. All were white. A couple of the women wore hippieish dress, but the men were wearing short-sleeved dress shirts and slacks. When I saw them at first, I thought they were some kind of Evangelical musical group on a tour, actually, and then when I heard them chirping away so enthusiastically, I thought they were Moonies.
I think they’re probably supposed to be spies, in the classrooms, at least, but one of them said that they would be doing other “community work” (I swear she was about to say “community organizing” and thought better of it).
The thing that amazed me was that there were so many of them. This is a fairly small town, and while there are some pretty high population developments around us, I couldn’t see why we were getting 30 of them. Is he planning on saturating the country with these people?
The organizers are supposed to go in, identify the disaffected and then form ad hoc interest groups or join same and then form relationships and use those to foment discontent. The method can be is to hold demonstrations or stack local political meetings for the purpose of ramming thru permits or getting some sort of official approval for a project. Projects can be anything as long as they involve groups of people meeting continuously and busily going about *change*. They look for people with a lot of spare time or no personal life. Local leaders emerge, are vetted and if they pass (are radical enough), they are encouraged. And then the organizers move on to the next venue.
Hopefully, this leaves each venue with a cadre of *leaders* who will not only keep pushing for incremental socialism, but usually then go on to run for school board, head the Historic Preservation Society, fill the Beautification Committees, and, in general, push for more and more governmental grants to accomplish whatever. These people develop skills only useful for organizing and interfacing with government, like our *leaders*,
The putative goals never matter. What matters is seeding every community with activists who are beholden to governmental administrative grants and know how to get other people those grants. It is a dependency cycle. The grants facilitator is a very important person for any governmental or non-profit entity.
We all have this going on in our communities already. I think this is their attempt to super-saturate the country with organizers and then hope that Marxism precipitates out of the *solution*.
I have been part of this, back in the 1970s and watched it in my area for 35 years. People have to learn to be wary of any bright-eyed offer to *help*. They aren't so much there to report out the residents, as to identify issues and start coalescing the necessary critical mass to get folks used to accomplishing things collectively, instead of thru individual and entrepreneurial effort.
One way to handle it is just to freeze them out wherever possible. Another is to passively ignore them. But there are always the dissatisfied and the bored and the control freaks and so, they will find the necessary warm bodies.
Send 'em to me - my students can take 'em out... I teach ED, some straight from Juvenile Hall.