[lbo-talk] the noble savages of the left: country folk.

[John Adams]

On Apr 21, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> I really don't know what the contribution of community organizing has
> been. In NYC, it looks like not much, but maybe I just don't know
> where to look. One of the reasons I wanted to write that activistism
> piece is because I'd been thinking for years about the barrenness of
> the Alinsky approach.

Contrarily, in Little Rock, where the public schools are under attack 
by the Walton family and the reprehensible publisher of the Arkansas 
Demagogue-Gazette, ACORN is one of the bulwarks of their defense. I 
won't say it's perfect, but it's better than nothing. They even show 
some signs of getting on the offensive rather than reacting.

All the best,

	John A