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Educating the People of the Mission
“Leftists often criticize the
broader Alinsky tradition for ‘not having an ideology’ and for ‘not
taking positions on’ the public policy issues of the day. These
criticisms persist. From the left, the implication is that community
organizing is reformist rather than revolutionary, or that it is not
anticapitalist or explicitly socialist. From liberals, it tends to mean
that community organizers do not take the kings of policy positions that
are typically debated by candidates for public office or developed in
policy think tanks. …
While
each disagrees with the others on content, they all share some common
assumptions about how education is to be accomplished: it would be
dispensed to members by those who know why something is the way it is,
what has to be done to change it. This isn’t much different from what is
assumed in most school curriculums: a teacher who knows more about the
subject tells students what to think.” (180-1)
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZER'S TALE by Mike Miller, Berkeley:Heyday Books, 2009.
CSCO believes this is the best book on organizing. Miller has been with
CSCO for many years.
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