Saul Alinsky

How America Can Avoid Ending Up Like the Roman Empire

Matt Bieber | Posted 05.24.2012

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Matt Bieber

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is core faculty and director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at...

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Radicalized by Saul Alinsky

Brian Rooney | Posted 04.09.2012

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Brian Rooney

When I hear former House Speaker Newt Gingrich rail against the "radical" Saul Alinsky, I just smile. Gingrich has reached into the past to find an enemy for the present, but I know something about Saul Alinsky.

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Saul Alinsky, Who?

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.07.2012

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Bill Moyers

And now, a word about a good American being demonized, despite being long dead. Saul Alinsky is not around to defend himself, but that hasn't kept Newt Gingrich from using his name to whip up the froth and frenzy of his followers.

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Who Is Saul Alinsky and Why is Newt Demonizing Him?

Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.03.2012

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Sandy Goodman

Newt Gingrich, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers. Yay! Saul Alinsky, radicalism, secularism, Europe, socialism, and bureaucracy. Boo!

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The Curious Case of Newt Gingrich and the Jews

David Margolick | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Newt Gingrich 2012, Elections 2012, Saul Alinsky, 2012 Election, Jewish Voters, Newt Gingich, Sheldon Adelson, Politics News
David Margolick

For all the comment it has generated, one aspect of the Gingrich campaign that has gone undiscussed is its extraordinary relationship with Jews. All at once, he is completely dependent on them, pandering to them, and demonizing them.

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Alinsky, Foreclosures and Holding Banks Accountable

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 04.01.2012

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Sanford D. Horwitt

Memo to the Obama Administration: if you want to see the makings of a national model to hold big banks accountable for fixing foreclosure-devastated neighborhoods, go to Milwaukee and talk to citizen leaders who are practicing what Saul Alinsky preached.

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The BEST Late Night Clips Of The Week

Matt Wilstein | Posted 03.28.2012

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Matt Wilstein

President Obama finally broke through the onslaught of Republican debates this week to deliver his State of the Union address (complete with hilarious...

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America, Meet Saul Alinsky, The Great Man Newt Gingrich Wants You To Hate

Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 03.29.2012

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Frank Mankiewicz

Saul Alinsky's name is not just one of a long list of villains cited by Gingrich as scheming role models or disciples of the president; he stands alone. And as one who was quite familiar with Alinsky's ideas in the 1960s, I would like to shine some light on things.

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Saul Alinsky Surfaces As GOP Bogeyman

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.27.2012

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Republicans in general, and Newt Gingrich in specific, pepper their rhetoric with mentions of Saul Alinsky. "And I believe, if we have a big electi...

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Occupy Wall Street at 6AM Sunday

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Acorn, Communist Party USA, Unions, Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Elliot Spitzer, Nancy Pelosi, Slidefreestyle, Afl-Cio, Uaw, Barack Hussein Obama, Saul Alinsky, American Nazi Party, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Seiu, Twu, Politics News
The Relentless Conservative

I woke up very early on Sunday morning and thought the Relentless Conservative (RC) should head on down to see what Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was all about.

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Jon Ward

There Is No Tea Party: FreedomWorks CEO On The Movement's Evolution And Its Role In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Twitter, Freedomworks, Federalism, President Barack Obama, Grassroots Organizing, Mitt Romney, States Rights, Individual Mandate, 10th Amendment, Facebook, Big Government, 2012 Presidential Election, National Debt, Obamacare, Matt Kibbe, Racism, Tim Pawlenty, Health Care, Saul Alinsky, Tea Party, Politics News

WASHINGTON -– One thing is certain. There is no Tea Party. There are only tea parties. In other words, two years after the birth of a new force ...

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Tunisian Protests Move Hillary's Line on Democratic Reform

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Tunisia, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Saul Alinsky, Organization of American States, Haiti, Egypt Protests, World News
Robert Naiman

Popular protest can bring down the government in an Arab country. Who knew? It's a whole new ballgame. You think today's events in Tunisia are going to affect conversations in Algeria and Egypt? Maybe even in Haiti?

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News
Peter Dreier

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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Keep Looking Up

August J. Pollak | Posted 05.25.2011

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August J. Pollak

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'Soul Of A Citizen': Want To Help? 10 Ways To Start Making Change

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Loeb

Effective activism's a long-haul process, not "save the Earth in 30 days, ask me how." But there are some principles that seem to reoccur for people addressing every kind of challenge.

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Will Smith's Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt's History by Hollywood

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aladdin Elaasar

Will Smith's upcoming movie sheds light on long forgotten Egyptian history. If you want to know the true story of the Last Pharaoh of Egypt, you'd better pay attention to what's going on in Egypt today and in the near future.

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A Revolution in the Making?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aladdin Elaasar

A sense of frustration, hopelessness and repression seems to be haunting Egyptian youth and the older people as well, struggling to make ends meet. The result has impacted Egyptian society.

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Is Egypt's Economy in Crisis?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aladdin Elaasar

Egypt is undergoing a severe liquidity crisis caused by the loss of hard currency from few sources: tourism was a key source of foreign exchange and the main engine of growth.

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Thirty Years after Khomeini: Will Egypt Turn into another Iran?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aladdin Elaasar

The 83-year-old President Mubarak of Egypt has been in power since 1981. Concerns about his health draw much greater attention to the question of who will next rule the nation of Egypt.

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Risky Business in the Arab World

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, William J. Bennett, Europe, Jews, Congress, America, Tom Hanks, Ann Coulter, Liberals, Steven Speilburg, Fiction, Oprah Winfry, 9/11, Middle East, George W. Bush, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Movies, Conservatives, Adc, Pyramids, Jewish, Robin Wright, Patriot Act, Hosni Mubarak, North Africa, Adl, Will Smith, Book Clubs, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Human Rights, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Teachers, Copts, Stephenie Meyer, Hot, Islam, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, Best Seller, Iran, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Cair, Dick Cheney, Jon Stewart, Librarians, Nile, John McCain, Africa, Mark R. Levin, Nancy Pelosi, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, Non Fiction, Barack, Sarah Palin, Harry Potter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Saul Alinsky, Books News
Aladdin Elaasar

Why is it hard for Arab and Muslim writers, professors, intellectuals and average persons to speak out against suicide bombers, Jihadists, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in their countries?

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'Soul Of A Citizen': From An Eighth Grade Education To Testifying Before Congress

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Antonio, Leadership, Latina, Acorn, Community Organizing, Social Change, Saul Alinsky, Industrial Areas Foundation, Books News
Paul Loeb

When we see a woman who begins with no money, no power, no education and no status in the community, and then becomes a powerful voice for change, it should inspire us all.

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Right Wing, Wrong History

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Left, Media, The '60s, Saul Alinsky, Politics, Conservatives, Ecology, Weathermen, Woodstock, Feminism, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Hippies, draft resisters, the Weathermen, rock bands, college radicals, feminists, and peace marchers were not all siblings in one big anti-establishment family.

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Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adam Hanft

Chicago is an Olympian city when it comes to literature and the arts. And what better time than now to remind us? Here's a sampling of some of those triumphs of the sedentary.

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Pass the Employee Free Choice Act

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, International Monetary Fund, Afl-Cio, Corporate Power, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, World Trade Organization, Wall Street, Nafta, Colombia, Vietnam War, John Sweeney, Iraq, Saul Alinsky, Iraq Timetable, Politics News
Robert Naiman

Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is easy to justify on the basis of guaranteeing the basic human rights of working Americans.

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The Hideout Endorses Tom Geoghegan For Congress

Tim Tuten | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tim Tuten

For 30 years, Tom Geoghegan has fought on behalf of steelworkers, nurses, taxi drivers, immigrants, union workers and those trying to unionize. As a regular who became an owner of the Hideout, I wholeheartedly support Tom Geoghegan for Congress and ask that you do the same.

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