Notable community organizers: Jane Addams & Martin Luther King, Jr. & Susan B. Anthony & ...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton...

Make fun of them at your peril!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_organizing#Notable_community_organizers

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1. The Sons Of Liberty

What a dumbass thing to say.

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3. What is next, making fun of purple hearts? Oh, wait, that was at the last RNC

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5. Those people are trash

When they rolled out those bandaids mocking Kerry's service it eroded any faith I had the Republican Party could ever ascend to even a meager level of civility. They are just sad, pathetic people.

When someone asks what I am politically I usually say "Well I hate Republicans"... before saying Im a Democrat.

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2. Theoretically weren't the "Founding Fathers" community organizers?

If Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Paul Revere and the others involved in the American Revolution, did not get the "community" involved, there would not have been a revolution.

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4. Yep, what's next?

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6. The abolitionists too!

Also, IWW, SDS, UMW, UAW, NEA, NAACP, CORE, SNCC, SEIU.... that's a LOT of people over time.

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7. kick

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8. How ironic that this woman would insult one of the major community activist role model for FFL

and the New York chapter maintains the SBA home.

Check it: http://www.feministsforlife.org/who/aboutus.htm then go here and read about their love for SBA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminists_for_Life (Susan B. Anthony's home).

The FFL of America is an ultra conservative pro-life feminist organization (read loony, right-wing conservatives that twist truths to fit their own agendas), where she is a staunch and active member.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/16/anthony-abortion/

The conservative anti-choice group Feminists For Life (FFL) has continually claimed that it is the successor to the 19th century feminist movement. Materials on its website point to anti-abortion rhetoric by the suffragists — such as Susan B. Anthony — to support its anti-choice agenda
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But as Pulitzer-Prize winning author Stacy Schiff points out in today’s New York Times, FFL has taken the 1869 article out of context:

What is generally not mentioned is that the essay argues against an anti-abortion law; its author did not believe legislation would resolve the issue of unwanted pregnancy. Also not mentioned is the vaporous textual trail. According to the editors of Anthony’s papers, the article is not hers.

The essay was signed by “A.” Historians note that Anthony never signed her writings that way. Even if Anthony did write the article, she, like most pro-choice advocates today, wanted to reduce the number of abortions. But she recognized that restricting women’s rights through legislation wasn’t the answer.

Doesn’t look like Anthony would have been a donor to FFL.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat4237.html

Palin is a member of Feminists for Life of America -- a venerable but little known pro-life group that focuses on the pro-woman reasons for opposing abortion.

The organization is considered an expert on understand how abortion hurts women and the complications abortion involves from a medical, physical and mental health standpoint.

Beyond that, Feminists for Life has championed the notion that one of the best ways to reduce abortion is to do the kind of work abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood should, but aren't doing -- namely, providing pregnant women with resources they need.

Feminists for Life has spearheaded efforts to make sure pregnant and parenting college students, who have the highest abortion rates in the nation, get tangible help like medical referrals, child-care and assistance in completing their education.

Then we find out that Palin slashed funding for a state funded program for teenage mothers. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3467069

ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."

So she mocks community organizers but yet is an active member an organization that practically worships Susan B. Anthony (even though they warp Susan B. Anthony's philosophies) THEN cuts the very funding which would help the very people who the FFL represent.

argh.

Just adding a little more color to the portrait of Sarah Palin.