Comments on: Community Organizers Fight Back http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:51:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Reggie http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1333 Reggie Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:51:07 +0000 #comment-1333 Way to go! I am glad that you guys created this site. CO's are the "co" in "cool. Way to go!

I am glad that you guys created this site.
CO’s are the “co” in “cool.

]]> By: H http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1308 H Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:58:38 +0000 #comment-1308 This is a great site...I have really enjoyed reading everyone's thoughts on this issue. This is a great site…I have really enjoyed reading everyone’s thoughts on this issue.

]]> By: NW http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1304 NW Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:02:23 +0000 #comment-1304 Please unite with other like minded, socially responsible citizens... http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25017724377 Community Organizers Unite!! Please unite with other like minded, socially responsible citizens…

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25017724377

Community Organizers Unite!!

]]> By: denise http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1302 denise Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:22:31 +0000 #comment-1302 obama owes apology to community organizers About 20 years ago in the windy city of Casper, Wyoming, I was privileged to serve among a group of 'community organizers.' These men and women served at the local mission, helped in latchkey school programs and we got involved in politics teaching on free enterprise and the constitution, helped register voters, and ran for precinct chairs all for the betterment of our communities. And we did it for free. Our pastors encouraged us to get off our blessed assurances and make a difference in our community. We knew what they preached and it wasn't anti-American nor did they call us white folk 'prosperity pimps'. My mentor was a hockey mom and I toted my Down Syndrome son around while doing these Random Acts of Kindness. Meanwhile in the windy city of Chicago, Barack Obama was doing his own 'organizing' involving himself for a paltry $12,000 salary (coming from taxpayer subsidies) for doing what? Serving soup? Mr. Obama has not yet answered to the public about his involvement with the far-left ACORN, Bill Ayers and those who masquerade as clergy. I guess that is why he has some skewed ideas about what service really is. I am not surprised why in the recent Service Nation Summit he promoted offering college tuition credits to students for community service. Maybe he should use the acronym IDRC for his big idea. It means - I Don't Really Care; I'm Doing it to Reduce my College tuition. Maybe he can enlist the IDRC's from liberal colleges to get more bogus voter registrations as ACORN has in over 12 states! I think Barack Obama owes an apology to those of us who have and continue to serve from the heart in communities all over this nation. Worse yet to use his questionable service activities and his 143 days in the U.S. Senate as a qualification for the executive office of President. obama owes apology to community organizers
About 20 years ago in the windy city of Casper, Wyoming, I was privileged to serve among a group of ‘community organizers.’ These men and women served at the local mission, helped in latchkey school programs and we got involved in politics teaching on free enterprise and the constitution, helped register voters, and ran for precinct chairs all for the betterment of our communities. And we did it for free. Our pastors encouraged us to get off our blessed assurances and make a difference in our community. We knew what they preached and it wasn’t anti-American nor did they call us white folk ‘prosperity pimps’. My mentor was a hockey mom and I toted my Down Syndrome son around while doing these Random Acts of Kindness.

Meanwhile in the windy city of Chicago, Barack Obama was doing his own ‘organizing’ involving himself for a paltry $12,000 salary (coming from taxpayer subsidies) for doing what? Serving soup? Mr. Obama has not yet answered to the public about his involvement with the far-left ACORN, Bill Ayers and those who masquerade as clergy. I guess that is why he has some skewed ideas about what service really is. I am not surprised why in the recent Service Nation Summit he promoted offering college tuition credits to students for community service. Maybe he should use the acronym IDRC for his big idea. It means – I Don’t Really Care; I’m Doing it to Reduce my College tuition. Maybe he can enlist the IDRC’s from liberal colleges to get more bogus voter registrations as ACORN has in over 12 states! I think Barack Obama owes an apology to those of us who have and continue to serve from the heart in communities all over this nation. Worse yet to use his questionable service activities and his 143 days in the U.S. Senate as a qualification for the executive office of President.

]]> By: mccain-palin doesn't get it http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1297 mccain-palin doesn't get it Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:19:35 +0000 #comment-1297 I heard an interview with Laura Bush the other day on my way to work, focused on the upcoming service forum at Columbia U. on 9/11. When the reporter asked about her take on the mockery of community organizing at the Repub. convention, she said "Well, I don't know what that [community organzing] is.". So she also suffers from the sudden selective amnesia regarding the long-accepted name of the method of capacity-building that is at the foundation of the work of the Peace Corps, Americorps, most community service efforts and many public health initiatives (including the Chicago-based program to prevent youth gang involvement that Laura B raved about in the same interview). She refused to acknowledge that the Chicago project, spearheaded by a physician and described as a public health effort, would rely on any community organizing techniques in the low income neighborhoods it targets. Odd statement since community organizing is integral to public health program implementation and part of the education of health educators. It's pretty sad when our First Lady, in order to maintain the political game of the day, chooses to play dumb about the term rather than be truthful about what she knows very well - that community organizing is the lynchpin of community service. I heard an interview with Laura Bush the other day on my way to work, focused on the upcoming service forum at Columbia U. on 9/11. When the reporter asked about her take on the mockery of community organizing at the Repub. convention, she said “Well, I don’t know what that [community organzing] is.”. So she also suffers from the sudden selective amnesia regarding the long-accepted name of the method of capacity-building that is at the foundation of the work of the Peace Corps, Americorps, most community service efforts and many public health initiatives (including the Chicago-based program to prevent youth gang involvement that Laura B raved about in the same interview). She refused to acknowledge that the Chicago project, spearheaded by a physician and described as a public health effort, would rely on any community organizing techniques in the low income neighborhoods it targets. Odd statement since community organizing is integral to public health program implementation and part of the education of health educators. It’s pretty sad when our First Lady, in order to maintain the political game of the day, chooses to play dumb about the term rather than be truthful about what she knows very well – that community organizing is the lynchpin of community service.

]]> By: janie http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1296 janie Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:57:54 +0000 #comment-1296 it is realy sad to think any one would MOCK kids trying to do GOOD things shame on rudy every little bit helps in ny he should know that. as far as palen she is got that mean spirited edge (scarry) it is realy sad to think any one would MOCK kids trying to do GOOD things shame on rudy every little bit helps in ny he should know that. as far as palen she is got that mean spirited edge (scarry)

]]> By: Rooanne http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1294 Rooanne Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:07:51 +0000 #comment-1294 Glad to see people are still posting here! Here's a link to a blog that I think someone might find interesting....... It's a different perspective on the movement. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/rooanne/gG5QtK Glad to see people are still posting here! Here’s a link to a blog that I think someone might find interesting……. It’s a different perspective on the movement.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/rooanne/gG5QtK

]]> By: Jennifer Buntz http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1293 Jennifer Buntz Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:50:46 +0000 #comment-1293 I was listening to the report on Democracy Now Wednesday about this web site as I was driving from my regular job to meet with a city council committee. Myself and a few other cyclists were going to this meeting to talk to the committee about changes in the bicycle traffic code. This is a small community activism effort; I can only imagine the difficulties that larger projects encounter and the challenges of winning broad support for important causes. But we do what we can and its a good thing because for issues large and small, who else will look out for us? Who else knows or cares? I was listening to the report on Democracy Now Wednesday about this web site as I was driving from my regular job to meet with a city council committee. Myself and a few other cyclists were going to this meeting to talk to the committee about changes in the bicycle traffic code. This is a small community activism effort; I can only imagine the difficulties that larger projects encounter and the challenges of winning broad support for important causes. But we do what we can and its a good thing because for issues large and small, who else will look out for us? Who else knows or cares?

]]> By: Will http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1287 Will Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:48:57 +0000 #comment-1287 I'm not a community organizer, and I seriously had no idea what one was until I watched Democracy Now! recently. Thanks Amy Goodman! After I knew what community organizers are, and then seen all those videos of the Republicans mocking them, it made me mad. Regular people are trying to get things done for the poor and working class families, and the Republicans seem to not want to care. You know what? They also don't care about the Constitution, so it's down to us, the regular citizens to protect and uphold it since the politicians don't want to. I keep up with politics these days, especially during the two conventions. Visit my blog at www.americasprotector.blogspot.com and please feel free to offer advice on stories I should contribute and advice on what can be added to the blog to help everyone rally together and protect our country. I’m not a community organizer, and I seriously had no idea what one was until I watched Democracy Now! recently. Thanks Amy Goodman!

After I knew what community organizers are, and then seen all those videos of the Republicans mocking them, it made me mad. Regular people are trying to get things done for the poor and working class families, and the Republicans seem to not want to care. You know what? They also don’t care about the Constitution, so it’s down to us, the regular citizens to protect and uphold it since the politicians don’t want to.

I keep up with politics these days, especially during the two conventions. Visit my blog at http://www.americasprotector.blogspot.com and please feel free to offer advice on stories I should contribute and advice on what can be added to the blog to help everyone rally together and protect our country.

]]> By: Jack O http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hello-world/#comment-1286 Jack O Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:22:19 +0000 #comment-1286 Why are all the statements here suggesting that Obama is somehow the answer to the nations prayers? Organizers should view politicians in the old "we're with you when your with us, we're against you when your not" school of thought. Otherwise your a bunch of Democratic party tools. Why are all the statements here suggesting that Obama is somehow the answer to the nations prayers? Organizers should view politicians in the old “we’re with you when your with us, we’re against you when your not” school of thought. Otherwise your a bunch of Democratic party tools.

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