Comments on: THATS ENOUGH!!! Community Organizing changed the political landscape. http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/thats-enough-community-organizing-changed-the-political-landscape/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:21:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Reform ACORN http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/thats-enough-community-organizing-changed-the-political-landscape/#comment-35 Reform ACORN Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:54:26 +0000 http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-35 There is a huge distinction between ACORN and "community organizing" as a whole. While ACORN has a lot of promise, its leadership has sold out its members and treats its organizers horribly. It can still be saved, though. For those interested, a new group aimed at reforming ACORN from the inside launched today. Please support the Truth To Power campaign with kind words, direct action, or a few bucks. More importantly: help reclaim ACORN for the progressive movement. Check it out at <a href="http://www.speakingtruth2power.org/acorn/" rel="nofollow">SpeakingTruth2Power.org/acorn</a> to reclaim one of the biggest community organizing groups around. There is a huge distinction between ACORN and “community organizing” as a whole. While ACORN has a lot of promise, its leadership has sold out its members and treats its organizers horribly. It can still be saved, though.

For those interested, a new group aimed at reforming ACORN from the inside launched today. Please support the Truth To Power campaign with kind words, direct action, or a few bucks. More importantly: help reclaim ACORN for the progressive movement.

Check it out at SpeakingTruth2Power.org/acorn to reclaim one of the biggest community organizing groups around.

]]> By: Today I am proud … « dre poetic: words by adrien salazar http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/thats-enough-community-organizing-changed-the-political-landscape/#comment-21 Today I am proud … « dre poetic: words by adrien salazar Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:54:47 +0000 http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-21 [...] Don’t Black Gay Me writes: In this presidential race we have seen pockets of folks formerly immobilized politically now involved. [...] [...] Don’t Black Gay Me writes: In this presidential race we have seen pockets of folks formerly immobilized politically now involved. [...]

]]> By: kenyon http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/thats-enough-community-organizing-changed-the-political-landscape/#comment-20 kenyon Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:11:27 +0000 http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-20 I think that what we'd better be careful about, those of us who are organizers and work in nonprofits, is that this is really a set-up. I wonder if the Republicans are gonna go further in their actions to go after non-profits they consider to be "lobbying" and turning the public against "community organizers" is the first step toward that goal. Recall, they went after the NAACP in 2004 for things that Julian Bond had said about Bush, and tried to revoke their 501(c)3 status. I think that what we’d better be careful about, those of us who are organizers and work in nonprofits, is that this is really a set-up. I wonder if the Republicans are gonna go further in their actions to go after non-profits they consider to be “lobbying” and turning the public against “community organizers” is the first step toward that goal. Recall, they went after the NAACP in 2004 for things that Julian Bond had said about Bush, and tried to revoke their 501(c)3 status.

]]> By: cuttingkeyboard http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/thats-enough-community-organizing-changed-the-political-landscape/#comment-19 cuttingkeyboard Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:06:12 +0000 http://dontblackgayme.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-19 The funnier thing I find is, aren't the Republicans practicing a form of organizing? I commented on my disgust of the GOP convention on Tuesday night. http://cuttingkeyboard.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/sarah-palin-mccains-watchdogmaybemaybe-not/. Never had I felt so alienated and insulting from their attack and especially their take on community organizing. I thought it was just down right disgusting, mean, and ill spirited. This chick comes out of no where and starts throwing right hooks when her own policies have been thrown in her face (pregnant daughter is off limits but this speaks directly to her stance on sex education in school and abortion rights). These are the people looking to get back into the White House? The funnier thing I find is, aren’t the Republicans practicing a form of organizing? I commented on my disgust of the GOP convention on Tuesday night. http://cuttingkeyboard.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/sarah-palin-mccains-watchdogmaybemaybe-not/. Never had I felt so alienated and insulting from their attack and especially their take on community organizing. I thought it was just down right disgusting, mean, and ill spirited. This chick comes out of no where and starts throwing right hooks when her own policies have been thrown in her face (pregnant daughter is off limits but this speaks directly to her stance on sex education in school and abortion rights). These are the people looking to get back into the White House?

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