>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Nathan Newman wrote:
>>
>> >grubby door-to-door organizing
>>
>> When we had dinner months ago, you kvetched about the PIRG model of
>> politics, yet it seems like you're still pretty enamored of the basic
>> strategy. Could you reconcile?
>
>Door-to-Door "organizing" is not grubby at all -- but it does have to be
>organizing _for_ something. CISPES leadership was convinced that such
>one-on-one was too slow and preferred to put its energies elsewhere. I
>think they were wrong. Once we simply created our own local
>"statement-of-solidarity-with-the-People-of-El-Salvador." A black woman
>and I rang doorbells in a local public housing area. Both of us were
>not-yet-diagnosed sufferers from depression and anxiety disorder, and
>for both of us the walk up to the door was an incredibly heavy task. But
>we had a hell of a good time once we got inside. The circumstances
>simply weren't right in the '80s, however, to let such enterprises take
>off. Milton had it right -- sometimes all you can do is stand and wait.
>
>Carrol
If you are organizing a door-to-door campaign against the war on Iraq in your town, what should your campaign (ends, means, etc.) consist of? -- Yoshie
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