andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>Since the bosses have gotten rid of the strike, and the
>Supreme Court has gotten rid of the election, that doesn't leave
>much in the nonviolent repetoire. Writing letters maybe.
-You're forgetting knocking on doors, selling the revo like Girl Scout cookies!
210 million boxes sold per year-- not a bad model of grassroots outreach.
Although an alternative outreach comparison might be the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses with their extensive door-to-door outreach. A while ago I saw a Watchtower pamphlet on globalization and its effects on the poor and I thought, minus the final "God is the solution" pages, it was the best intro text I've seen on the issue-- with 25 million copies being handed out worldwide.
Sorry guys-- I started my political life going to door-to-door, talking to new people about consumer and enviro issues. Most serious union organizing is based on door-knocking as well at potential members doors.
The denigration of door knocking and the attached organizing is the exact problem I see with a left that prefers to talk to itself at rallies or in its existing media circle rather than reach out to new people.
-- Nathan Newman