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Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
Our first-ever awards for 'achievement' in local politics
Honoring the deeds and misdeeds of 2011 at the city, county, and state level
Media / Politics / News Bites Alinsky and Terkel, talking
Posted by Michael Miner on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:18 PM
Alinsky was a community organizer born and raised in Chicago who worked closely with friends in high places in the Catholic Church. On what was probably his last visit to Chicago before he died in 1972, Alinsky appeared at the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, spoke sympathetically of the middle class and dismissively of demonstrators, and said the only way to change the system is from within it. He also spoke about demonizing the opposition. An organizer can't afford to grant that the enemy is 45 percent good and 55 percent bad, he said, because "people won't put themselves on the line for 10 percent."
The Reefer / Politics Memo to Mayor Rahm: You won!
Posted by Ben Joravsky on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM
I won't reveal his/her name 'cause if I do, Mayor Emanuel will have a fit and send him/her a dead fish for even talking to me.
I'm not sure what the mayor has against me. It couldn't have been anything I wrote—or over the fact that I went to Evanston while he went to New Trier. Those old high school rivalries last forever!
Mudville / Media / Politics This is halftime!
Posted by Sam Worley on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:14 PM
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