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Video documentary recounting Alinsky's life and work, and reviewing two contemporary IAF members' activities. Includes bibliography and information on filmmakers.
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In this lengthy serialized interview, the organizer talks about his plans to mobilize the "silent majority", his upbringing and early influences, and his early successful campaigns, including Chicago's Back of the Yards slum.
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Empowering People, Not Elites
Interview with Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky is, along with
, one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left.
has been so great that we worked to obtain this extensive interview with him, conducted by Playboy magazine in 1972. It is, by far, the most
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An overview of Alinsky's work, along with the prologue from "Rules for Radicals".
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Saul Alinsky was a community organizer and organized the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago in 1940. Born in 1909, Alinsky's strategy was social reform by the organizing in mass power and taught us the means for action until his death in 1972. He was a compassionate social reformer of great
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Article summarizing the organizing approach, particularly as used by public sector unions in the US.
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Labor Unrest and Public Policy
What every public official should know about Saul Alinsky's:
Public officials, particularly elected public officials, have a special problem when dealing with labor unrest. Labor unrest makes the public--the voters--nervous. The natural political response is to seek
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An organizer describes his own work in the South/Southwest side of Chicago, 1969-73, with some critical opinions of the sustainability of Alinsky's "visionless short-term pragmatism".
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Tough, Cat-Clawing, Bloody [ With
New Material -- Posted 6/28/01]
See, too, my community organizing "mini-course" at
Chicago organizing is tough -- in any era -- just plain damn tough: a
cat-clawing fight on all sides. This is an extended note on our work on the
bloody South/Southwest
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