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Community Organizers - The Nation's Backbone

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Get this ad on TV now www.truthandhope.org A slimmed down 30 sec. version will be ready to go for your viewing pleasure later today. John McCain and Sarah Palin need a history lesson about our great country. Community organizers are the backbone of our great nation and all they can do is mock them. Same old politics

Attacking community organizers = Republican race-baiting

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Author: AntiConformist911

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The Republicans had expected that their orchestrated attack on Barack Obama's community organizing efforts in Chicago would link the Democratic candidate in Americans' minds with inner cities, the poor, racial minorities, troublemakers and radicals. At the same time, they wanted to demean -- and portray as strange and exotic -- Obama's decision to work on behalf of American working families facing tough times, a choice at odds with the GOP portrayal of Obama as part of an elite insensitive to the concerns of most voters. At the St. Paul confab on September 3, former New York Gov. George Pataki had sneered, "[Obama] was a community organizer. What in God's name is a community organizer? I don't even know if that's a job." Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's mocked, "He worked as a community organizer. What? Maybe this is the first problem on the résumé." In her speech accepting the VP nomination, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that the you have actual responsibilities." The following Sunday (September 14), on "Meet the Press,"..Giuliani, utilizing what used to be called "red-baiting" tactics in the McCarthy era, then tried to link Obama to what he called "a very core Saul Alinsky kind of almost socialist notion that [government] should be used for redistribution of wealth." The group that recruited Obama , the Developing Communities Project on Chicago's south side, was not affiliated with the Alinsky-founded Industrial Areas Foundation, but with the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of church-based groups. Within hours after the GOP convention, Obama released a statement and a fund-raising appeal, challenging the Republicans who "mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing." His campaign manager David Plouffe sent another fundraising e-mail, saying, "Let's clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies." Following the GOP convention, contributions to the Obama campaign spiraled. Obama often refers to the valuable lessons he learned working "in the streets" of Chicago. "I've won some good fights and I've also lost some fights," he said in a speech during the primary season, "because good intentions are not enough, when not fortified with political will and political power." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/palin-attacks-on-communit_b_129568.html John Raskin, who said: "Community organizing is kind of the antidote to big money lobbying. It's the way that ordinary people come together to hold the government accountable to what they actually need. So the job of an organizer, someone like me or what Barack Obama was doing twenty years ago and other folks do around the country, is bring people together. You know, you knock on doors, you go to churches, you go to synagogues, you go to mosques, you have meetings. But people come together around what they need in the community." Raskin referred the audience to a website for Community Organizers of America. On it, there is a good defense of the work. "Regular people, working together, are the lifeblood of American democracy. Community organizing is how we keep that democracy strong, vital and accountable to its people." During the Bush presidency, the executive branch has operated under the theory of the unitary executive, which allows for the president to be a tyrant. Now, this election year, Barack Obama's formative work experience was as a community organizer. That is, instead of making decisions from the top like a CEO with executive experience and not knowing how most people live, he worked with people to help better their communities. As he said on September 7 on ABC's This Week: "Understand what I--what I did as a community organizer. When I got out of college as a young person, twenty-four, twenty-five years old, I had moved to Chicago and worked with churches, who were dealing with steel plants that had closed in their neighborhoods, to set up job training programs for the unemployed and after-school programs for youth and to try to deal with asbestos in homes of poor people. Community service work, which John McCain has been talking about putting country first and extolling the virtues of national service, that's what I did between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-seven, before I went to law school. I would think that's what we want all our young people to do." This experience is probably the best reason to vote for Barack. That and his eloquent opposition to invading Iraq, and his experience as a professor of constitutional law, and, well, 6.6 billion (current human population of the world) other reasons. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-macafee/community-organizing-expe_b_125636.html

Why Single Out Community Organizers?

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Author: CBS

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CBS political correspondents and contributors remark on comments made by Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani that belittled the work of community organizers.

A Photo History of Community Organizers

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Educating the GOP: A Photo History of Community Organizers

Roland Martin on Palin's speech

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Roland Martin on Palin's speech

Barack Obama Press Conference

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Obama speaks to the press about Palin and the the first two days of the RNC.

Community Organizers Revised T.V. Spot

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Author: ourhispanicvoices

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Help get this on the air. visit www.truthandhope.org. After becoming a samll viral hit, it has been picked up and is slated for cable buys in battleground states. It's time to take this country back and away from the politics that attacks others for creating a better country to live in.

Five Days Later...

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http://narconews.com/thefield Inspired by the Obama campaign and a talk by Al Giordano, Obama organizer JD Stier and "Fieldhands" Kurt and Constance Squire host a gathering at Brocach Irish Pub in Madison, WI on November 9, 2008. Their goal is to keep the "Obama Movement" going long after the election is over. So far so good.

Why do Republicans hate community organizers?

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Author: AntiConformist911

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No longer able to remember his principles any better than he can distinguish between Sunnis and Shia, McCain stands revealed as a guy who can be easily rolled by anyone who sells him a plan for victory, whether in Iraq or in Michigan. A McCain victory on Election Day will usher in a Palin presidency, with McCain serving as a transitional front man, an even weaker Bush to her Cheney. The ambitious Palin and the ruthless forces she represents know it, too. You can almost see them smacking their lips in anticipation, whether theyre wearing lipstick or not. This was made clear in the most chilling passage of Palins acceptance speech. Aligning herself with a young farmer and a haberdasher from Missouri who followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency, she read a quote from an unidentified writer who, she claimed, had praised Truman: We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity. Then Palin added a snide observation of her own: Such small-town Americans, she said, run our factories and fight our wars and are always proud of their country. As opposed to those lazy, shiftless, unproud Americans — she didnt have to name names — who are none of the above. There were several creepy subtexts at work here. The first was the choice of Truman. Most 20th-century vice presidents and presidents in both parties hailed from small towns, but she just happened to alight on a Democrat who ascended to the presidency when an ailing president died in office. Just as striking was the unnamed writer she quoted. He was identified by Thomas Frank in The Wall Street Journal as the now largely forgotten but once powerful right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler. Palin, who lies with ease about her own record, misrepresented Peglers too. He decreed America was done for after Truman won a full term in 1948. For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a guttersnipe, and with good reason. Pegler was a rabid Joe McCarthyite who loathed F.D.R. and Ike and tirelessly advanced the theory that American Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (geese, he called them) were all likely Communists. Surely Palin knows no more about Pegler than she does about the Bush doctrine. But the people around her do, and they will be shaping a Palin presidency. That they would inject not just Peglers words but spirit into their candidates speech shows where theyre coming from. Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, said that the Palin-sparked convention created a whole new Republican Party, but what it actually did was exhume an old one from its crypt. The specifics have changed in our new century, but the vitriolic animus of right-wing populism preached by Pegler and McCarthy and revived by the 1990s culture wars remains the same. The game is always to pit the good, patriotic real Americans against those subversive, probably gay cosmopolitan urbanites (as the sometime cross-dresser Rudy Giuliani has it) who threaten to take away everything that small-town folk hold dear. The racial component to this brand of politics was undisguised in St. Paul. Americans saw a virtually all-white audience yuk it up when Giuliani ridiculed Barack Obamas only in America success as an affirmative-action fairy tale — and when he and Palin mocked Obamas history as a community organizer in Chicago. Neither party has had so few black delegates (1.5 percent) in the 40 years since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies started keeping a record. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/opinion/14rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin