Obama helped fund 'Alinsky Academy'
3.19.10 – A Chicago nonprofit on which President Obama served as paid director provided startup capital and later funding to Midwest Academy, an activist organization described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation, WND has learned.
Obama helped fund ‘Alinsky Academy’
Teaches tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation
A Chicago nonprofit on which President Obama served as paid director provided startup capital and later funding to Midwest Academy, an activist organization described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation, WND has learned.
Also, in 1998, Obama participated on a panel discussion alongside Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth, an extremist organizer and dedicated disciple of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.
The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital to the Midwest Academy. WND first reported Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.
Midwest was co-founded by Booth’s husband, Paul Booth, a founder and the former national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, the radical 1960s anti-war movement from which Ayers’ Weathermen splintered.
In 1999, Booth’s Midwest Academy received $75,000 from the Woods Fund. In 2002, with Obama still serving on the Woods Fund, Midwest received another $23,500 for its Young Organizers Development Program.
Midwest describes itself as “one of the nation’s oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.”
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It later morphed into a national organizing institute for an emerging network of organizations known as Citizen Action. Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community organizing.
Discover the Networks describes Midwest as “teach[ing] tactics of direct action, confrontation, and intimidation.”
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I have read Alinsky's Reveille for Radicals (presumably the same book as Rule for Radicals) and regard it as one of the best handbooks on how to address and solve social problems effectively. I get SO tired of reading criticisms of substantive social theorists and political activists which are predicated on who knows who. Old but good advice: "Play the ball, not the man".
Alinskys “Rules for Radicals” was developed with the purpose of establishing strategies to fight against the democratically elected governments and the free market corporations. These rules were very effective. But, ironically, the same rules can be used today by conservative patriots to fight against a socialist/communist government.This is one of the reasons why Rush Limbaugh is so hated by the left – he successfully uses Alinskian methods against the left, especially freezing the target and the use of ridicule.
That is Alinskys achilles heel.