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“Health Care and Hate in Alhambra” — on the ground at a health care town meeting

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Friends and Colleagues: I attended a town meeting on health care reform in Alhambra on Tuesday night, sponsored by my Congressman, Adam Schiff, a moderate Democrat. I wanted to see if the right-wingers and the Republicans would once again outmaneuver…

Tagged with: Barack Obama, community organizing, health, health care
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Community Organizers: Thank You, Sarah Palin

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Thanks to Sarah Palin (with an assist from Rudy Giuliani), the media are finally paying attention to community organizing. As David Moberg and I write in our Huffington Post column today (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/palin-attacks-on-communit_b_129568.html), in the past few weeks, many reporters, columnists…

Tagged with: Barack Obama, community organizing, Sarah Palin
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“GOP Mocks Community Organizing At Its Peril” — The Nation

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Friends and Colleagues: When Palin and a host of GOP luminaries, including Rudy Giuliani, mocked community organizers the other night, they denigrated a tradition of collective self-help that reaches back to the Boston Tea Party and that has made America…

Tagged with: community organizing, GOP, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin
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Is Obama just a “hope monger?”

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Friends, My article in The Nation today, “The History of Hope,” examines the controversy over Barack Obama’s emphasis on “hope.” The Clinton campaign says Obama is peddling “false hopes,” is more about “words” than action, and doesn’t understand how to…

Tagged with: Barack Obama, community organizing
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The Year of the Organizer

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

In California, Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama is narrowing. The Los Angeles Times today even says the primary is now dead even. The same is true in other states where Clinton was leading, but where now the race is…

Blog Archives

“Health Care and Hate in Alhambra” — on the ground at a health care town meeting

Community Organizers: Thank You, Sarah Palin

“GOP Mocks Community Organizing At Its Peril” — The Nation

Rev. Martin Luther King: Anti-War, Pro Union

Is Obama just a “hope monger?”

The Year of the Organizer