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Saul AlinskyBy Joseph Cerniglia
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Early adversity 1909-1930“[Anti-Semitism] was so pervasive you didn’t really even think about it; you just accepted it as a fact of life.”
Russian Immigrant Orthodox Jewish
3Career shift
• Earned Ph.B (Archaeology) from University of Chicago 1930. “Archeologists were in about as much demand as horses and buggies.”
• Depression starts: 1929• University of Chicago Graduate School (Criminology) 1930-1932• State of Illinois – Criminology• Starts community organizing (1939) to “turn scattered, voiceless
discontent into a united protest.”
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Community Organizing
• Back of the Yards, Chicago; Kansas City; Detroit; Southern California (1939-1949)
• Reveille for Radicals (1946)• Civil Rights Movement (1950s)• Organizing the organizers (1960s)• Rules for Radicals (1971)
5Death
• Died in 1972• Just before his death he planned to organize the white
middle class into a national movement for progressive change directly to congress and “the boardrooms of mega-corporations.”
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Reveille for Radicals (1946)Born out of his time in and out of jail in Kansas City for Community Organizing:• Solidified his beliefs• Began his efforts to pass
along his methods
Rules for Radicals (1971)Divided society into three categories:• Haves (Upper class)• Have-nots (Lower class)• Have-a-little, Want mores
(Middle class)
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8Alinsky on Love
• If you think of people in derogatory terms, then you don’t like people.
• You make “ethnic” jokes behind the backs of your fellow Americans, you really don’t like people you tolerate them
• There are those few that really love people – all people. These are the “radicals.”
9Inspirational
Cesar ChavezHillary ClintonBarack ObamaDick Armey
10Power
• “This becomes a contest of power: those who have money versus those who have people. We have nothing but people.”
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Saul AlinskyBy Joseph Cerniglia
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