If some day we want to make more just laws, then today we may have to just learn to break more laws. As Thoreau said, “It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”

Let me restate my wish list briefly:

• Tactics that vary with the target and the situation.
• Tactics with tension that press the target not only in novel ways, but create real pressure on the edge of organizational control.
• Tactics that return to a direct action and mass action regime that puts large numbers of people in motion.
• Tactics that challenge and builds public support.
• Tactics that include civil disobedience and political defiance.
• Tactics that embrace mutual and independent alliances.
• Tactics that accommodate the principal of independent action at the limits of collective action.
• Tactics that include extra-legal activity and welcome individual activist contributions in the collective enterprise.
• Tactics that stand for the principle that when community and/or labor forces are stopped legally, other actors and formations will move independently and aggressively.
• Tactics that adopt the principle that when our flag falls, others will pick it up and move forward.
• Tactics that are lively and fun, but are not about play and symbol, and instead take their exhilaration in victory.

You get the message….

We know how to do this work, so let’s up the stakes, take our responsibilities and institutions seriously, and start fighting to win.

Ready or not. Here we come!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke

Founding Service Employees International Union Local 100
Rathke is also founder and Chief Organizer of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100, which is headquartered in New Orleans with operations in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. Founded in 1980 in New Orleans as an independent union of Hyatt employees, the union became part of SEIU in 1984.

But Hyatt is the Pritzkers. And both Pritzkers work for Obama and have donated heavily to MoveOn.org.

Small world. With more cozy connections than we may realize!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke

Departure from ACORN
July 9th,2008 The New York Times reported[3] that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN’s founder Wade Rathke, was found to have embezzled $948,607.50 from the group and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000. ACORN executives, including Rathke, did not inform the whole board, nor law enforcement, but signed an enforceable restitution agreement with the Rathke family to repay the amount of the embezzlement. Wade Rathke stated to the Times that “the decision to keep the matter secret was not made to protect his brother but because word of the embezzlement would have put a ‘weapon’ into the hands of [...] conservatives who object to [ACORN]’s often strident advocacy on behalf of low- and moderate-income families and workers.” A whistleblower revealed the embezzlement in 2001; the Rathke brothers both departed ACORN in 2008.[3] [4]

http://blip.tv/file/1343295/

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Fox News Network, LLC

Que?

Fortunately, you can still access the video on the McCain site (web ad: Acorn). It is worth a view.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=4c34dbc7-d1a9-48a0-994f-18fc59cbb81a

Oh, but good vid.

Thank you so very much for adding the text for those few of us unable to view the video.

Much, much appreciated.

http://www.johnmccain.com/videolanding/acorn1.htm