Posted on 10/10/2008 11:17:51 AM PDT by bw17
The Democratic Socialists of America Present The First Chicago Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity
EMPLOYMENT AND SURVIVAL IN URBAN AMERICA a discussion of policy, problems, and possibilities
with
WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, Director, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago
MICHAEL DAWSON, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
BARACK OBAMA, Candidate, State Senate, 13th Legislative District
TONI PRECKWINKLE, 4th Ward Alderman
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, Professor of Political Science, Temple University
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH 7:00pm Ida Noyes Hall, Cloyster Club 1313 E. 59th Street, Chicago
Sponsored by: *University of Chicago Democrats *Chicago Democratic Socialists of America *University of Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
For more information call:
University of Chicago Democratic Socialists, 312-955-6371
(Excerpt) Read more at groups.google.com ...
Yeah, when I said “other than that” they were level headed and normal, I meant other than politically. As long as we’re talking about guy stuff and work stuff, they’re normal.
There is one report out there on one blog that Ayers and his wife babysat for Obama which would have been in the past couple of years as they are still young. Obviously there are no records of that but if someone who lives in the neighborhood could confirm that and willing to go on the record (and into the witness protection program) it would certainly give the lie to Obama’s claim that he just saw him around the neighborhood.
So many leads out there, so short a time:
Ayers and Obama at Columbia [1981-83, maybe]
Dohrn (Ayers wife) and Michelle at the Sidley law firm [true, same time frame, wonder if Ayers was at their wedding??].
Ayers ghost writing one or both of Obama’s book [maybe]
Chicago Annenberg Challenge [both board members-true]
Woods Foundation [both together - true]
Obama lies, lies, lies. Remember, for Marxists the ends justify the means...
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
New Ground 45
March - April, 1996
A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity:
Employment and Survival in Urban America
By Bob Roman
Over three hundred people attended the first of two Town Meetings on Economic Insecurity on February 25 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Entitled “Employment and Survival in Urban America”, the meeting was sponsored by the UofC DSA Youth Section, Chicago DSA and University Democrats. The panelists were Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman of Chicago’s 4th Ward; Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District; Professor William Julius Wilson, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago; Professor Michael Dawson, University of Chicago; and Professor Joseph Schwartz, Temple University and a member of DSA’s National Political Committee.
(snip)
Barack Obama observed that Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in the 1960s wasn’t simply about civil rights but demanded jobs as well. Now the issue is again coming to the front, but he wished the issue was on the Democratic agenda not just on Buchanan’s.
One of the themes that has emerged in Barack Obama’s campaign is “what does it take to create productive communities”, not just consumptive communities. It is an issue that joins some of the best instincts of the conservatives with the better instincts of the left. He felt the state government has three constructive roles to play.
The first is “human capital development”. By this he meant public education, welfare reform, and a “workforce preparation strategy”. Public education requires equality in funding. It’s not that money is the only solution to public education’s problems but it’s a start toward a solution. The current proposals for welfare reform are intended to eliminate welfare but it’s also true that the status quo is not tenable. A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the “social wage” approach used by many social democratic labor parties. By “workforce preparation strategy”, Barack Obama simply meant a coordinated, purposeful program of job training instead of the ad hoc, fragmented approach used by the State of Illinois today.
The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama is running to gain the Democratic ballot line for Illinois Senate 13th District. The 13th District is Alice Palmer’s old district, encompassing parts of Hyde Park and South Shore.
Mr. Obama graduated from Columbia University and promptly went into community organizing for the Developing Communities Project in Roseland and Altgeld Gardens on the far south side of Chicago. He went on to Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a law degree. In 1992, he was Director of Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration campaign that made Carol Moseley Braun’s election to the U.S. Senate much easier than it would have been. At present, he practices law in Judson Miner’s law firm and is President of the board of the Annenberg Challenge Grant which is distributing some $50 million in grants to public school reform efforts.
What best characterizes Barack Obama is a quote from an article in Illinois Issues, a retrospective look at his experience as a community organizer while he was completing his degree at Harvard:
“... community organizations and organizers are hampered by their own dogmas about the style and substance of organizing. Most practice ... a ‘consumer advocacy’ approach, with a focus on wrestling services and resources from outside powers that be. Few are thinking of harnessing the internal productive capacities, both in terms of money and people, that already exist in communities.” (Illinois issues, September, 1988)
Luckily, Mr. Obama does not have any opposition in the primary. His opponents have all dropped out or were ruled off the ballot. But if you would like to contribute to his campaign, make the check payable to Friends of Barack Obama, 2154 E. 71st, Chicago, IL 60649. If you would like to become involved in his campaign, call the headquarters at (312) 363-1996.
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I have been in contact with someone with Sean Hannity’s staff. I sent him the links and faxed him all this information this morning. I haven’t heard anything back yet.
“Barak Obama is serving only his second term in the Illinois State Senate so he
might be fairly charged with ambition,
but the same might have be said of Bobby Rush when he ran against Congressman Charles Hayes. Obama also has put in time at the grass roots, working for five years as a community organizer in Harlem and in Chicago. When Obama participated in a
1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of
European social democracy.
To volunteer, call 773 846 2262. Contributions may be sent to Obama for Congress 2000, PO Box 497987, Chicago, IL 60649.”
“...This could be a great October surprise - IF the MSM would start showing it..”
Mentioned this morning on CNN I think. It’s old news now!
/no s
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International... We are socialists.
Democratic socialists believe that... diversity and opportunity necessitates a fundamental restructuring of our socio-economic order... We cannot accept capitalism's conception of economic relations as "free and private,"... The democratic socialist vision... draws upon Marxism, religious and ethical socialism, feminism, and other theories that critique human domination.
Checkmate.
Has anyone noticed that the market fell when Obama pulled ahead in the polls and each day he has been ahead the market continues to tank
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Good find!
Palin’s ties to the AIP will be compared to Obama’s Socialist ties, but she will be able to explain hers better than Obama can.
They all know where I stand on politics, and I know where they stand. Politics, in the rare instances certain topics are broached (as inevitably happens), is discussed very gingerly in mixed company, at least in my experience!
So one has to really look at the nature of the association - and in Obama's case, his associations ARE nakedly political, and clearly bilateral (i.e. it is not a case of Obama having an unfortunate class of admirers, while extending no reciprocal goodwill contingent upon their political proclivities). It is not a case of him going to a doctor who happens to be a communist, or getting hired by a law firm which employs a radical with eco-terrorist leanings to do their landscaping. Or even collaborating with a Marxist lawyer on apolitical matters. Obama made a conscious effort to embed himself with some interesting political groups, and he should be expected to reap the rewards and damage of these POLITICAL associations.
Just as I, if political ambitions were to arise, would have to answer for my public associations with the NRA, Federalist Society, Cato Institute, Heartland Institute, Reason Foundation, National Center for Policy Analysis, etc. Luckily, no John Birch Society skeletons would await discovery though, LOL.
March - April, 1996, A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity: Employment and Survival in Urban America...
The panelists were...Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District...
Barack Obama observed that... the state government has three constructive roles to play... While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the "social wage" approach used by many social democratic labor parties... The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs... The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.
Save everything you find on this site, I expect it all to mysteriously disappear before tomorrow morning.
Ping!
THIS SHOULD BE ON SIDEBAR IF NOT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/09/whyorg.html
Why organize?
From the archives
Editor’s note: Barack Obama wrote this article for Illinois Issues in 1988, while he was a community organizer in Chicago. It later became part of a book, After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois, published by Illinois Issues in 1990. We are republishing it this month to show, in his own words, some of the Democratic presidential candidate’s earliest influences in Illinois.
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Problems and promise in the inner city
by Barack Obama
(snip)
with respect to Obama, it is useful to remember that FDR did not walk into the White Hose in 1933 with a program that resembled what we came to know as the New Deal but only with a commitment to help his fellow citizens. In fact, had he spelled out something that looked like the New Deal during the campaign, he might well not have been elected... in this campaign that is probably the best we can expect.
The Health Care Justice Act [chief sponsor in the Senate is State Senator Barack Obama], in its original form, mandated the Illinois General Assembly and the Executive Branch to set up a Commission that would write a universal health care bill for the State that the General Assembly would then be obliged to pass
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng58.html#anchor8686
May - June, 1998
“So long, Saul, old friend. We will miss your information on foreign events, the election predictions and the dinners Marion and I have had with you and Jennie. You took a lot with you when you left us. But you left a lot more behind that we will never forget.”
by Carl Shier
On Friday, March 13th, Chicago’s democratic left lost one of its champions, Saul Mendelson.
Saul Mendelson was a co-founder of the Debs Dinner in 1958. He was its treasurer for the first ten years and worked diligently to make it a success for 39 years. Saul received the Thomas - Debs Award in 1988.
Saul Mendelson was also a real believer in union movement. He fought for the right of teachers to bargain collectively and he was a member and leader of the American Federation of Teachers.
He was active in reform politics in Chicago, especially the campaigns for Harold Washington. He even ran for State Senator in 1970. He was the foreign policy specialist for the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). Saul was the essence of the long distance runner.
Memorial services were held on March 29 and on April 2 by the Harold Washington College Chapter of the Cook County Teachers Union.
At the memorial service held at the 1st Unitarian Church on South Woodlawn, speaker after speaker recounted Saul’s contributions. The service was ably MC’d by a retired colleague, Bob Clark. I spoke first and was followed by Saul’s friend Deborah Meier, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient who is now starting a new school in Boston. Amy Isaacs, National Director of the ADA, spoke of what Saul had meant on foreign affairs to the ADA. Other speakers included Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, State Senator Barak Obama, Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie and a good friend from New York, Myra Russell. The concluding remarks were made by an old friend, Harriet Lefley, who is now Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami Medical School.
The Saul Mendelson Memorial at Harold Washington College had colleagues speaking of what Saul had meant to the professors because of his union leadership as Chair of the Chapter. The event was organized by the present Chapter Chair, Mike Ruggeri.
For Jennie, his companion for 50 years and the mother of his children, and for all his friends, the two memorials were very important.
Saul Mendelson
You joined the Socialist movement at the age of 18. You chaired the Socialist Club at the University of Chicago. You taught and inspired students at DuSable High School. You fought in the civil rights struggles with the NAACP, with CORE, and with the Negro American Labor Council. You have held fast to your belief in democratic socialism.
You fought for collective bargaining for public employees and were the vice-president of the Chicago Teachers Union High School Division when the first collective bargaining contract was achieved. You became a professor at Loop College (now Harold Washington College) and were its union chair from 1969 to 1986 in the Cook County College Local. Five of the times your union was forced on strike, you were your chapter’s strike committee chair.
You have been active in reform politics for years, as chair of the state IVI-IPO, and presently as chair of the South Side IVI-IPO. You have served on the national board of the Americans for Democratic Action since 1966. You participated as an area coordinator in all stages of the 1983 and 1987 mayoral victories of Harold Washington and in Charles Hayes’ Congressional campaigns. This year’s Democratic Party Convention will be your third, and you go to Atlanta as a Second Congressional District delegate for Jesse Jackson.
You were one of the founders of this Dinner when it was known as the Debs Dinner and you served as its treasurer for ten years. On this seventh day of May, 1988, the Norman Thomas - Eugene V. Debs Award is given to you for living an active, dedicated life in the pursuit of the ideas and ideals of these two great socialists.
Someone should contact Brit Hume with the info since he mentioned the connection last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfRb87dtY4
OBAMA’S STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
No, He's the Marxsiah
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