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Chris Hedges | Strategies of resistance with Michael Gecan, author of “Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action”

Chris Hedges | Strategies of resistance with Michael Gecan, author of “Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action”

On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses strategies of resistance with Michael Gecan, author of “Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action”. RT Correspondent reports on the godfather of community organizing, Saul Alinsky.

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Published on Jan 7, 2017

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We had gotten more of a reaction than we had bargained for by being simple and quiet and focused—not by waving a sign or shouting a slogan.

Michael Gecan, Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action (2004, p. 58)

[bostonreview]

If MOOCs were offered as an experiment, as an approach to be tested and evaluated and refined, that would be one thing. But MOOCs are being sold, hustled really, as the best and brightest breakthrough since the printing press. The MOOC sales staff all have what in religious circles is called a “witness story.” There’s always a poor lad or lass in some desperately poor place, as far away as possible, who takes a course that would never be available if not for MOOCs. I heard one recently about a boy in Mongolia who took a poetry course through an Ivy League online offering. Now, I’m glad that he had the chance to take that course. And I hope more have the opportunity. But, as scientists love to say, the plural of anecdote is not data.

Michael Gecan, "Predatory Lending: Reforming Education for the Wrong Reasons"

[bostonreview]

There is politics outside Washington, a vital and vigorous alternative to the stale performances of our two main parties.

Michael Gecan of the Industrial Areas Foundation on how community organizing can create a new politics to replace the depressing state of our two major parties and Washington.