Posted on 02/22/2010 10:04:43 PM PST by smoothsailing
Phyllis Schlafly
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
President Barack Obama's budget has added more than $100 billion of federal taxpayers' money to what is called "education," so that means it will be spent by alumni of the Saul Alinsky school of radical community organizing and/or the Chicago Democratic machine. We're indebted to Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com for exposing the shocking use of some of these funds.
Obama is using the public schools to recruit a private army of high-schoolers to "build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda." We now know that Obama's "agenda" is to move the United States into European-style socialism.
Obama's Internet outreach during his campaign, Obama for America, has been renamed Organizing for America (OFA) in order to recruit students to join a cult of Obama and become activists for his goals. Geller discovered that the teacher of an 11th-grade government class in Massillon, Ohio, passed out the sign-up sheet, headed with Obama's "O" logo, asking students to become interns for Organizing for America.
These interns will be given an intensive nine-week training course using comprehensive lesson plans. Assigned readings include Saul Alinsky's notorious "Rules for Radicals," "Stir It Up: Lessons From Community Organizing and Advocacy" by the left-wing activist Rinku Sen, and particular sections of "Dreams From My Father" dealing with Obama's days as a community organizer in Chicago.
Republican students will be filtered out of the intern program by requiring applicants to answer questions that reveal their politics. One example is, "What one issue facing our country is important to you and why?"
Geller said the purpose of this training to become Alinsky-style community organizers is, "of course, to elect more Democrats." The internship program is specifically geared to get the kids working in the 2010 elections.
The sign-up sheet for Organizing for America starts with this instruction: "Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change." The application explains that this national internship program is "working to make the change we fought so hard for in 2008 a reality in 2010 and beyond."
This is not the first time Obama has tried to enlist schoolchildren into an Obama cult. Last fall, the instructions mailed to every school by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan added a very political dimension to Obama's speech that was broadcast to public school children on Sept. 8.
Geller explained the extensive political dimension of the new intern program. The OFA student interns will be trained in the goals and language of the left: "antiwar agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, (Bill) Ayers, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, soft-on-jihad and illegal immigration."
Another item on OFA's reading list is "The New Organizers" by Zack Exley. It brags about "an insurgent generation of organizers" inside the Obama campaign that has "almost without anyone noticing ... built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people's organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level."
The 10-page "National Intern Organizer Curriculum" is very specific in describing the tactics that interns will be taught. It includes these components: "Using Story as an Organizing Tool, Building Relationships and Building Teams, Mobilizing to Win on the Issues (issue advocacy), Health Care Service Project."
Passage of Obamacare is one of this intern project's major goals. The curriculum promises to provide "insight on the strategy and plan behind the health care campaign" and "further motivate them to work on the issue."
The sign-up sheet states that the "purpose" of training these students is "to build community" among the interns and teach them "to be leaders in OFA's organizing work." After all, Barack Obama knows a great deal about being a community organizer -- that was his only real job before he got into politics.
Job prospects may be bleak for many Americans, but they will be rosy for alumni of Obama's intern program. After the students have been fully trained as Alinsky-style community organizers, they will be eligible for jobs in Senior Corps, AmeriCorps or Learn and Serve America.
Those three so-called "service" organizations, which annually dole out millions of dollars to left-wing groups, are overseen by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The U.S. Senate just confirmed this Corporation's new chief executive, Patrick Corvington, who was a senior official of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has given over a million and a half dollars to the ACORN network of organizations.
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I listened to Obama’s speech the day he brought out his Jobs’ Bill. He emphasized two things that are at the top of his list of concerns - jobs and education. Both well and good, but I wondered when “education” creeped up to number two. Now I know why.
This is truly frightening. And we MUST be vigilant at the local level. Also, it would be great if we could get some high school moles in one of these programs.
Looks like a church childern group Sundayschool class!
Thanks for the ping!
"That’s how they wanted it to come off.How true
"When it’s nothing more than brainwashed kids being used as a political tool by a group of California liberals who didn’t care two cents about zer0’s record or lifelong radical associations"
They are doing this all over the place, preparing mind numbed propagandized voters.
Check the pic on Posting #9. It really says it all.
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Wonder how much we could get for a slogan or theme song...
Don’t think they’d buy ours.
It would be fun to start the YouTube contest. Wonder how the voting would go...
Odds are they’d fall over to the left, but ya never know.
This was on our LOCAL news tonight and the administrators were Oohhhing and Ahahhhhing over it and I thought about throwing up. My grandson was not a afraid to challenge the teachers or the class. I really thought he would get bad grades but he came out with a A- avreage. Of course his last year was loaded with industrial arts which he continued in Jr College...
I home school. (...and we produce YouTube videos :o)
Are you watching WWII in HD on History Channel? Pretty good videos.
History Channel is measuring distance and time here on western shore
Yep. Modern Marvels... NIST et al. pretty cool stuff with the atomic clock... then after that, the WWII shows came on here.
Speaking of video I am going to star in a documentary about the new Skate Board Park. A class at College of the Redwoods is recording the community involvement and they sought me out as a Mover and Shaker aka a Rain Maker for the fund raising in the private sector. I think the digital recording took about 3.32 minutes in the alley behind the shop...
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