Neighbors, On this link to firedoglake, you will find an important report on the use of censorship to silence true progressives and new ideas. People keep asking, where is the progressive grassroots movement? Answer: it is being infiltrated and either redirected or sabotaged before it gets started.
I touched on this before, and briefly reported my experience at the local, Coalition to Save the Libraries. Grassroots movements are being actively infiltrated by professional activists. They are using the same bag of ruthless tricks as our civic associations, which we've widely discussed, and that I've documented on this public list. They seek to "shepherd" progressive movements, and then, sabotage them at the most critical junctures. (I saw an anti-war activist describe the same pattern and correctly use the term shepherd.) My friends, who were kicked out of the Coalition To save libraries, met and discussed this pattern. Grassroots movements are being infiltrated and destroyed before they get started. All genuine progressives and honest people working for social and planetary justice must watch out for these patterns!! Here in Philadelphia you can count on infiltration. Also, please don't allow a group called, Train For Change, to be involved in any grassroots movement or organization. These were the professional, grasstop, activists that took over the Coalition To Save the Libraries and Coalition For Essential Services, here in Philadelphia! This is a huge and apparently ubiquitous problem! http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/29957 Note about the responses: The responder, Jason, works for that sham health care outfit that supports the democrats agenda. See how he was confronted for a false ad hominem. He also was the one to dismiss the censorship report, and immediately offered "list-moderation" with the ad hominem attack. See how the tactic is the same as we see in the UCD??? ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
