<I want to see someone go into a meeting of Local 204, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and explain to them how the notion of integrating town and countryside became a central component of the communist program.> You mean LECTURE to them, don't you, Stan? That's what the elite paid union OUTSIDE organizers see their task to be. They need community organizers from inside their community, not travelling 'professional leaders' on 'International' payroll. <I am going to have around 100 meetings in 100 days, contacting people who might know people, who are interested in progressive politics. In these meetings, I am listening more than talking, because I am listening for that person's values, and keeping an eye peeled for danger signals, like --disruptor, whiner, flim-flam artist, new-age guru, etc. I also bird-dog new contacts.> What an elitest! But you will be 'listening', of course. <Second round of meetings, with a vetted group from the first round. Confirm shared values and goals. Now I am determining if the person has the individual charactersistics and skills to do what we're looking for (organizing). Consciousness, maturity, persistence, willingness to give and accept criticism, effective communicator, HAS THE TIME... stuff like that.> Yawn. What a prescription for continued disintegration of the trade unions. And you will give the whole idea of 'organizing' a bad name at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars of union workers' dues. And what vision have you offered anybody to risk life and soul for? Being under your supervision? Tony Abdo _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
