Many of us here have learned a lot from Dancing Larry’s Alinsky posts. I thought, since they were mentioned a couple of times in Meteor Blade’s diary, I thought I’d post a quick set of links to Larry’s posts, in honor of the giant shit kos took on activists today:
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol. I: A Tale from the City
Talkin Organizing, Vol. II: Meet Saul Alinsky
Talkin’ Organizing: Vol III. Raising a Stink in Rochester
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol IV: Ego! Power! Leaders & Organizers
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol V: Rosa Parks, Community Organizer
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol. VI: How I Became a Citizen Activist
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol. VII: Interests, Friends, and Politicians
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol. VIII: The Do Re Mi
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol IX: Ends and Beginnings
Talkin’ Organizing, Vol X: Ethics, Means and Ends
Alinsky Exercise: Rule #5 and “Virginia Fundies Gone Wild!”
For those of you who haven’t, please check them out.
I read Mr. Kos diary. Of course, you would expect a media mogul to say the media is more important to stopping the war than protestors.
Except the media, including his blog,have not stopped the war and will not.
One protest of 100,000 will not stop the war. Was it really 100,000 by the way? On CSPAN it looked closer to a hundred.
My dad was antiwar in the 60s and he went to MANY peace marches. He tells me that they often turned violent instigated sometimes by the cops to make the protestors look bad and sometimes by the protestors to make thye cops look bad.
It took a long time to end Vietnam. Kos acts like we dont have the time. I think we have the time but maybe we dont have the attention span.
Kos is superfluous in my opinion. He is a media mogul looking out for his best interest first second and last.
Real action will make changes. Blogging has a much lesser influence on events than he wants to give himself credit for. After all, if people start doubting the importance of blogs in the political process, his readership, his influence and his income will fall.
I like reading blogs but I keep them in perspective. Basically, they are chat rooms between people of like mind.
Not a recipe for progress at all.
I’m sure Kos is right. His Daily Kos Convention in Las Vegas sounds like a much better expenditure of time, energy, and donations. Donations? Yes, that’s right: volunteers, he wants, and donations. When did Kos become a charity? I must have missed that. My only question: My donation to allow Kossacks to gamble, buy cheap drinks, and maybe a hooker or two… now is that tax deductible? Oh, well. Anything I can do to support the revolution. True visionaries like Kos come along so rarely.