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Alinsky and his tactics.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Your story on Saul Alinsky ("Alinsky: A Radical Who Matters," November 10) caused me to go to my collection and pull out a tape recording I made of Alinsky, "Plain Talk on Civil Rights," at the Benjamin Franklin Junior High School in San Francisco in 1965.
I recall that at that time Alinsky not only called himself a radical but also a Marxist, which may explain why the communist Harry Bridges was on stage, along with many enthusiastic priests and nuns.
In the following Alinsky quotation, one cannot help but notice that his method was closely related to the "instant induction" method used in hypnosis and hypnotherapy training: "Get an issue and cause conflict. For successful warfare you must 'confuse' the opposition. Our tactics are now too familiar to the enemy. For 'shock' value we ...
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...a four-game series. Writer friend Sanford "Sandy" Horwitt, the biographer of the late famed community organizer Saul Alinsky and the still very much alive Russ Feingold, got us some great tickets for three of the games at Nationals Park, a $611...
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...parents and children Hablando Claro or Plain Talk for Parents is a two-part workshop...activities around the influence of the media. Plain Talk consists of many activities, but perhaps...different age levels. At the end of every Plain Talk session, parents receive a "parent...
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