[bwteim]

You are welcome.

Also, see
http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky2.htm
for short interview

More interesting, see Alinksy's 13 "rules" at
http://www.fraw.org.uk/library/002/anarchism/alinsky_radical.html

from his book 'Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals'

I like rule #5. Guess it works both ways...

[Mia T]

thx again. will get back to you on this.... :)

[presently no screen name]

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.

I guess the GOP fell for this one. They out any R they wish, and the R obeys and leaves the scene while Sandy HotPants (i.e.) is alive and well. Great link. thanks.

[Mia T]

By the late Sixties, Alinsky was leaving most of the field work to his aides and concentrating on training community organizers through the Industrial Areas Foundation Training Institute, which he calls a "school for professional radicals." Funded principally by a foundation grant from Midas Muffler, the school aims at turning out 25 skilled organizers annually to work in black and white communities across the nation. "Just think of all the hell we've kicked up around the country with only four or five full-time organizers," Alinsky told newsmen at the school's opening session. "Things will really move now."

...And a top Office of Economic Opportunity official, Hyman Bookbinder, characterized Alinsky's attacks on the antipoverty program (for "welfare colonialism") as "outrageously false, ignorant, intemperate headline-seeking."

Interview with Saul Alinsky

Thank you for the links.

Two quick observations:

"Just think of all the hell we've kicked up around the country with only four or five full-time organizers"--Alinsky

Several words come to mind: asymmetric warfare, fourth generation warfare, terrorism

Alinsky's attacks on the antipoverty program (for "welfare colonialism")

hillary rodham ostensibly agreed with Alinsky on this, yet 'welfare colonialism,' and, more generally, the exploitation of the vulnerable in the service of themselves, their power and their treasure, is precisely what the clintons have been about for more than 30 years.