tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post1974607331271199251..comments2024-02-01T09:25:16.606+00:00Comments on Bubb's Blog: Community, Leadership and knife proddingSir Stephen Bubbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575202213305419556noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-87841773425652113942009-04-03T10:05:00.000+01:002009-04-03T10:05:00.000+01:00NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!Please leave Alinsky alone! He...NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Please leave Alinsky alone! He was explicitly writing for radicals not liberals. Radical comes from the latin for root, and the point is to address the roots of social problems, not trim the foliage into a more appealing display.<BR/><BR/>He was a revolutionary. He advocated working 'within the system' as a tactic, not an end in itself. <BR/><BR/>Just taking the stuff about community organising in isolation is dishonouring his memory, and indeed working against his end goal.<BR/><BR/>To see Alinsky bowdlerised in this way - used as an NGO tactic and even recommended to an MP - makes me sick to the stomach. It's the same myopia that led people on the right to hold up Orwell as an anti-communist idol when he hated capitalism as much as Stalinism.Markhttp://www.libcom.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-72277784042200922752009-03-26T17:53:00.000+00:002009-03-26T17:53:00.000+00:00But see Fast Strategy by Doz and KosonenBut see Fast Strategy by Doz and KosonenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-40848954446370265742009-03-25T10:04:00.000+00:002009-03-25T10:04:00.000+00:00Stepphen,Good luck with that meeting with Yvette C...Stepphen,<BR/>Good luck with that meeting with Yvette Cooper, another in the line of MP's accused of feathering their nest through legal, but barely moral, use of second-home allowances - I wonder how she views those in the banking industry claiming similar defences?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-53779249511256797182009-03-25T01:54:00.000+00:002009-03-25T01:54:00.000+00:00Sandy , this is fascinating . can we touch base on...Sandy , this is fascinating . can we touch base on this . i am keen to get his writings more widely known . perhaps you could email me ; stephen.bubb@acevo.org.uk , and let me know a number to ring . Im in the States till next Monday so can ring you some time and lets tlak potential . <BR/><BR/><BR/>And Progmanager , yes you too . id love to meet up . As we now have an office in Leeds I would very much like to meet . email me too .Sir Stephen Bubbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575202213305419556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-57095525182620387112009-03-24T14:49:00.000+00:002009-03-24T14:49:00.000+00:00I am Saul Alinsky's biographer ("Let Them Call Me ...I am Saul Alinsky's biographer ("Let Them Call Me Rebel," Knopf). Yes, it is important to know more about Alinsky's intellectual journey and politics. I am also the chair of the Alinsky centennial committee. The centennial kickoff was held six weeks ago at the University of Chicago and more Alinsky centennial forums will be held in the U.S. later this year. I'd love to come to England and talk about community organizing from Alinsky to Obama and beyond as part of the centennial celebration. Let me know if you and your colleagues are interested.--Sandy Horwitt<BR/> <BR/>SAUL ALINSKY<BR/> CENTENNIAL<BR/> 1909-2009<BR/>“We the people will work out our own destiny.”sandy horwitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17237001183495514720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-44840603301455414232009-03-24T12:48:00.000+00:002009-03-24T12:48:00.000+00:00Go Alinsky! After yonks tracking the blog and mai...Go Alinsky! <BR/><BR/>After yonks tracking the blog and mainly getting enraged I have found something we can agree on. Next time you are in Leeds can we have a coffee/tea/chateau lafitte?<BR/><BR/>Check out an Alinsky primer here: www.infed.org/thinkers/alinsky.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com