>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
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>andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>
>>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
>
>
Hah! I bet I am the *only* list member who did any door-to-door
organizing today.
I spent about an hour today doing my "poor man's workout," putting rave card flyers under doors in my neighborhood for the upcoming Latin America Solidarity protests this weekend.
Chuck0