Community Organizers Demands An Apology From Palin!

[Hope And Change]

Community Organizers Fight Back

September 4, 2008 · 57 Comments

Organizers demand apology from Alaska governor, say “we’re working to clean up your mess!”

Community organizers across America, taken aback by a series of attacks from Republican leaders at the GOP convention in St. Paul, came together today to defend their work organizing Americans who have been left behind by unemployment, lack of health insurance and the national housing crisis. The organizers demanded an apology from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for her statement that community organizers have no “actual responsibilities” and launched a web site, http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com, to defend themselves against Republican attacks.

“Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan. “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers. But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home. If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.”

Though many people are unfamiliar with community organizing, the job is both straightforward and vital: community organizers work with families who are struggling–because of low wages, poor health coverage, unaffordable housing, and other community problems–so that collectively, they can fix those problems and make government respond to their day-to-day concerns. Organizers knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations to help ordinary people build power and counter the influence of self-interested insiders and highly paid lobbyists at all levels of government.

Scorn for community organizers has been a prominent feature of this week’s Republican convention. On Wednesday, three Republican leaders mocked community organizers:


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[BanzaiBonnie]

1. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count,

we wouldn’t need community organizers.


This needs to be shouted out loud and clear!

[bunnies]

2. Damn right! She shit on the stage. Time to rub her nose in it. nt

[RobertSeattle]

3. Yep - they are trying to make Community Organizer the new "Lubrul"

Jesus Christ was a community organizer...

[Infomaniac]

4. proud to give the 5th vote

Community Organizers are the lobbyists for the working and middle class stiffs the Palinistas purport to love.

[nichomachus]

5. Bumper Sticker, please

I'm a community organizer -- and I vote
Obama/Biden '08

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. They mock community organizers, but have CEOs advocating for McCain.

Shows you where their head is at.

[NotThisTime]

7. This is just extraordinarily sad IMHO... these freaking idiots have no idea what Community Organizer

Organizers do or who they do it for... fools...

[Cha]

8. It's so beautiful when something you think should happen,

after last night's attack on Community Organizations, actually does!

Of course, they would go on the offense...palin's speechwriter took her to a minefield and set her loose. Forget red meat to the whack hypocrites ..speechwriter and palin ENERGIZED THE DEM BASE! :bounce:

[nichomachus]

9. Has anyone pointed out that the GOP has been pushing community organizing up until now?

This is their way to justify cutting social programs.





President George W. Bush presented the President’s Volunteer Service Award to Caroline Wolf upon arrival at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, on Monday, August 4, 2008. Wolf is an AmeriCorps member serving at the Literacy Council of Alaska, and also volunteers with Alaska Health Fair Incorporated. To thank them for making a difference in the lives of others, President Bush honors a local volunteer when he travels throughout the United States. He has met with more than 650 volunteers, like Wolf, since March 2002.

So, did he really hate them all the time?

[stray cat]

10. Aren't churches part of the community organizer network?

Habitat for Humanity is sure a great group she insulted.

[applegrove]

11. Neocons hate community organizers because they educate people

and get them to vote.

In Ontario, when we had the neocon conservative Mike Harris, the first thing he did when he got into power was to get rid of funding for all jobs that involved educating the public.

[Hope And Change]

12. Kick!

[Celebration]

13. Republicans: A Thousand Points of Dark Energy n/t