Name your favorite historical Community Organizer...I'll start: Paul Revere

[WA98070]

[yardwork]

1. Jesus

Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Washington
Gandhi
All the women suffragettes

[roguevalley]

60. James the Just, Jesus, MLK, RFK, Mother Jones, suffragettes,

my mother and father, Joe Hill. Woody Guthrie, who was a pillar in my humble opinion.

[Turn CO Blue]

2. Thomas Paine

[Turn CO Blue]

11. Paul Wellstone

[Turn CO Blue]

16. Cesar Chavez

[Turn CO Blue]

19. Martin Luther King Jr

[Island Blue]

64. Ditto. n/t

[sufrommich]

66. I'll second that! nt

[GDAEx2]

3. Eugene V. Debs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Debs

[BrklynLiberal]

4. All those who helped to start unions in this country. They overlap with civil rights advocates.

A Phillip Randolph
Woody Guthrie
Eugene V. Debs
Joe Hill
Mother Jones
Samuel Gompers
Cesar Chavez
Sidney Hillman
Saul Alinsky

[WA98070]

7. 2nd that

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Gandhi n/t

[my2sense]

6. MLK

[Democrats_win]

8. Jesus, yes. Paine, yes...but did they have Responsibilities? Yes.

They held the very lives of their followers in their hands. Palin pales.

[Virginia Dare]

34. Did Jesus have executive experience?

he wasn't mayor or anything.

[nichomachus]

44. I think Messiah is Aramaic for Mayor

Hey, he was the founder and CEO of a worldwide organization that is still around after 2,000 years.

[Hepburn]

9. Barack Obama...

...:hi:

[KittyWampus]

10. All those Hockey Moms who join the PTA which is a Community Organization

[iamjoy]

12. Too Many To List

How about Jane Addams?

She's not my favorite, but a lot of people may overlook her accomplishments.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. The Grange Revolution- Madd- Missing kids

Thom Hartman mentioned that there are ton out there that are white and
the republicans are using 'community organizer' as a race card.

[Occam Bandage]

14. The radical Palestianian cleric, Yeshua bin Yusef.

:evilgrin:

[WA98296]

15. Norma Rae

[goodgd_yall]

17. Dorothy Day, St. Francis, among others n/t

[mcctatas]

18. Saul Alinsky....

[NatBurner]

20. huey newton

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

21. local churches. take that, freeps.

[JohnnyBoots]

22. Ghandi.

[Mme. Defarge]

23. Moses

[mac56]

24. Eleanor Roosevelt

nm

[IA_Seth]

25. Obama!

Ok, so he isn't historical, but we will help change that!

[protect our future]

26. John Kerry nt

[WinkyDink]

27. Wat Tyler:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dlaw70/wat.htm

[vanderBeth]

28. Jane Addams

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

29. Weren't the Founding Fathers community organizers?

:shrug:

[whistler162]

49. Yeah, a little group called the Sons of Liberty!

[central scrutinizer]

51. no, they were too busy writing the Pledge of Allegiance

[Alpharetta]

30. Daniel Boone

[Alpharetta]

31. Davy Crockett

[eShirl]

32. my late grandmother

[Alpharetta]

33. Ben Franklin

[kestrel91316]

35. The Original: Jesus.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Mike Huckabee

Not my favorites, by any means, but they were/are community organizers.

[Alpharetta]

37. Harriet Tubman

[DrZeeLit]

50. Yup yup... she was my first choice. I also sort of LOVE my neighborhood watch buddies and

The Blood Bank
Food Bank
Community Chest/United Way
Red Cross

yeah... all those volunteers and worker bees... tsk tsk... too bad they have NO RESPONSIBILITY

[XemaSab]

38. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony

:)

[Retrograde]

39. all the unsung heroines

who did volunteer work during various crisis. The Catholic nuns who were among the first organized groups of nurses during the Civil War (one convent in Georgetown was converted to a hospital), and all the other women who served the sick, are organized events to raise money for medicines and supplies (I've been reading about women in the Civil War - a fascinating and often overlooked area). The women in the anti-slavery women who used their pens as their swords. The Suffragettes.

The environmental activists, who helped reverse the deteriorating environmental conditions of the 60s (I remember the days when we could see the air, and the river caught fire). The people who actually practice Christianity, and feed the hungry, visit the confined, and comfort the afflicted quietly, without shouting "Look at me!"

And the millions of others I haven't mentioned. The guys, too :-

[goclark]

40. America's Dedicated Teachers

that work hard everyday to make this world a better place.

Especially those teachers that work in Urban settings and with Special Needs children.


God bless them.

[Radical Activist]

41. Cesar Chavez

Before he formed the UFW he worked for a community organizing group started by a Saul Alinsky organizer. The fact that Obama uses Chavez's "Yes we can" is significant.

[Leftist Agitator]

42. Mordechai Anielewicz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechaj_Anielewicz

"In January 18, 1943, he was instrumental in the first act of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, preventing the majority of a second wave of Jews from being deported to extermination camps. This initial incident of armed resistance was a prelude to the Warsaw ghetto uprising that commenced on April 19. Although there were no surviving eye-witnesses, it is assumed that Anielewicz either died fighting or took his own life, along with his girlfriend and many of his staff, in the ŻOB bunker at 18 Miła Street on May 8, when the Germans overran their position.

Anielewicz's body was never found, and it is generally believed that it was carried off to nearby crematoriums along with all the other Jewish dead. Nevertheless, the inscription on the memorial at the site of the Miła 18 bunker says that he is in fact buried on the site."

[apnu]

43. Mahatma Ghandi

The ultimate community organizer.

[shaniqua6392]

45. The first community organizer:

Jesus!

[csorman]

46. Margaret Sanger

[democrat2thecore]

47. Eugene Debs -nt

[whistler162]

48. Mother Teresa

[intheflow]

52. Um... Barack Obama?

Not good enough for ya? ;) How about Leslie Cagan, Judith LeBlanc, Eli Pariser, Robert Kennedy Jr., Bernie Glassman, Dorothy Dix, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Marie Marchand, George Wiley, and Ron Chisom? I could go on and on--community organizing is the world in which I live. All my heros are and have been community organizers.

And might I add, the POTUS is supposed to be the ultimate in community organizers, imho, as that person will head up all the communities within our nation.

[grimble_grumble]

53. Patrick Henry

[ncteechur]

54. Samuel Adams

[Kira]

55. I love that!

Email Obama that comparison!

[Celebration]

56. Susan B. Anthony

Not sure if she is my fave, but she deserves mention.

[rvablue]

57. Whoever started this thread deserves a medal!

Hey Duers! As you can see this is my first post. I have lurked since 2004 when I sought solace from the madness, but never posted because I'm in a profession where it's best not to participate.
This post finally got me to do something.
Just wrote a letter to the Editor at my local small city paper:

Dear Editor, The attacks at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin mocking Barack Obama for his community organizing dismissed not only the work of the Senator helping laid-off steel workers in Chicago but also the courageous and important accomplishments of community organizers throughout history. Without them, we would be living in a very different world. I've listed just some a few of them below. Before she attempts to use this belittling smear against the achievements of Barack Obama again, Gov. Palin should pay extra special attention to the last two entries; the first she has noted as being one of the reasons she, herself, should hold the second highest elected office in our nation and the second of whom made it possible for her to even dream to. 1. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2. Paul Revere 3. Gandhi 4. All of the Founding Fathers 5. Harriet Tubman 6. Cesar Chavez 7. Member of the PTA 8. Susan B. Anthony

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for all of the soul-soothing reading and thoughtfulness you've given me over the years. You aren't going to be able to shut me up now!!!

[Left Is Write]

58. Jimmy Carter

[RichardRay]

59. Phil Wylato

Never heard of him? Don't blame you. Like most folks who organize effectively and over the long run very few folks ever have. I worked with him 35 years ago - I burned out - he's still at it. He's a better man than I am.

[roguevalley]

61. everyone on this list because they make me proud.

[Bucky]

62. Phyllis Schlafley. Jerry Falwell. Prop 13's Howard Jarvis. All the PNACers. Bill Buckley.

To name a few.

[Bucky]

63. Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglass. Sojourner Truth. Nat Turner. Denmark Vesey

[mrs_p]

65. dorothy day

[eshfemme]

67. Clara Barton (founder of the Red Cross)

[noel711]

68. Jane Addams

Founder of Hull HOuse in Chicago,
the first of many 'settlement houses'

AND first women to recieve the Nobel Peace Prize.

[AlinPA]

69. That's it! That is the comeback line. "Palin and Guliani mocked and laughed at

community organizers - people like Paul Revere and Mother Teresa"

[Cybergata]

70. Ceasar Chávez and Reies López Tijerina n/t

[booksenkatz]

71. Margaret Sanger. nt