Blogposts tagged 'Saul Alinsky'

The art of nuisance

Posted by vickywyatt - 16 April 2009 at 12:34pm - 0 Comments
Climate campaigner Vicky is next up in our spring blog relay - a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

Vicky at her desk

I heard a story a few weeks ago that captured what, as a campaigner on the climate team, I should be aspiring to do. It goes like this:

Saul Alinsky, the activist and community organiser who campaigned to improve the lot of the poor, black, working-class in 1960s America, took on the Kodak Company in New York for refusing to hire black workers at its factory.

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