Alinsky, Myles Horton, Movement

they were friends, did you know that?
Both looking for movement.

I am trying to solidify, articulate, tune my thoughts on what a movement looks like before it reaches that point where it swells up and boils over so there's no doubt about it.

Myles says that those people using what they call the Alinsky Method got it all wrong. Saul was a good organizer because he had a sense of humar, brilliance, and disregard for what other people said about him. Could have used any method and would've worked.
Saul thought if he put the leaders he developed in power they would help make other leaders and go organize other communities. But once they got in power and stoped being poor they stayed put and didn't share their power. This upset Saul very much.

In times like these
where we are in some kind of valley
where not only are we NOt getting any closer to that line on the horrizon but we are backtracking (previouse victories rolled back)
the progressives huddle up for warmth and talk only to eachother and feminist thinking keeps evolving in a tiny circle that doesn't seem to grow. -a bubble more than a movement.

Organizing that is effective in repealing oppressive laws won't nessissarily educated anybody to do anything or follow it up - nessisary ingredient for the multiplication of leaders inherrant in MOVEment.

Myles said if he had to choose between acheiving an objective or using the struggle to develope and radicallize people he would let the goal go and develope the people. says only the little victories that are calculated toward a structural change lead to valuable learning. Little victories of limited reform, they only teach you to look for small goals to reach.

So which reforms will get the ball rolling?