Panel to Discuss Alinsky,
ASUO Poverty Speaker
wnercvcr l go there is trou
ble," xayx Saul Allnsky, who hux
organized community action pro
jects all over the country in an
effort to fight poverty.
Alinxky will lx- the topic of a
discussion on Private Line 3, the
t'Diversity's educational televi
sion station at ft 30 p m today.
On the panel discussing Alin
sky will he James Klon.ski, associ
ate professor of political science
and former Kugone chairman of
the Congress on Racial Equality;
Clyde DeBerry of the University’s
office of federal government re
lations and present chairman of
I!iigene CORK; and Hill Cainp, ju
nior in political science James
Tysell, freshman in pre law, will
moderate the panel
This is the first of three dis
cussions on the speakers at the
ASt'<) sponsored conference on
poverty Jan 27 28 Other panels
will discuss American economist
Hubert Lampman, British econo
mist Robert Theobald, and Arthur
Pearl, professor of education and
head of VISTA at the University.
Provoker
In a recent issue of Harper's
magazine, writer Marion K San
ders says this about Alinsky:
"Inciting municipal jitters is,
in a sense, Aiinxky'x trade. This
summer he will practice it . . .
in several . upstate New York
cities Next winter he will be in
Kansas City, Mo., where the lo
cal press has portrayed him as a
'battler for the poor whose ideas
have set thousands marching and
resulted in . . . screams of rage,
moans, and groans. He provokes
violent reactions.apparently it
is neutral in appraising him ’
"The problem, Alinsky says, is
that—unlike his critics — he
really believes in democracy. ‘De
mocracy lacking in popular par
ticipation dies of paralysis,' he
wrote 20 years ago in a little
book called Reveille for Radicals.
In it he blueprinted his design
for militant “People's Organiza
tions'’ which would translate 'the
despair born of frustration, hope
lessness, and apathy’ into fruit
ful action.
He had, at that time, already
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All members of the Faculty
Women’s Club are invited to at
tend a Dessert and Foreign Fash
ion Show at the University to
day.
The event, given by the Uni
versity Newcomers’ Group, will
be at the Faculty Club from
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SAUL AIJN8KY
Subject of Discussion
brought one such organization in
to being in his native Chicago.
There—in one grim slum — he
forged an effective coalition of
Catholic priests, left - wing labor
leaders, local businessmen, and
the stockyard workers. The cata
lyst of this mass movement was
shared anger The common en
emies were the meatpackers, slum
landlords, a City Hall dominated
by a callous political machine,
and bankers who turned their
banks on small home owners in
need of mortgages, and/or small
merchants seeking credit. The
tolls were picket lines and boy
cotts, mass meetings, rent strikes,
demonstrations, and sit downs.
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Conservative Americans were dis
mayed by these aggressive tac
tics. They also caused consterna
tion in ‘liberal’ circles, dedicat
ed to benign, orderly social pro
grams. As a result the ‘ Back of
the Yards’ movement and its or
iginator became objects of bit
ter controversy.
“Alinsky had no financial back
ers when he started work in the
stockyard area. He found his sup
port, as well as the potential
leaders of the movement, with
in the community itself — an or
ganizing principle he has adhered
to ever since.
Training School
“A few farsighted and gener
ous Chicagoans saw in Alinsky’s
unorthodox methods a new and
hopeful way of extending to other
benighted communities what has
now come to be known as the
War on Poverty. With their help
he formed the Industrial Areas
Foundation—a kind of training
school for agitators which, over
the next 15 years, helped some
40 impoverished communities set
up militant organizations. The
most celebrated of these is in
Woodlawn, a Negro slum adjoin
ing the University of Chicago
campus. Charles E. Silberman in
his book, “Crisis in Black and
White,” has called Woodlawn ‘the
most significant social experiment
going on among Negroes in Am
erica today.’
“Another staunch Alinsky par
tisan is Moasignor John Egan
who was largely instrumental in
winning the support of the Chi
cago Catholic Archiodese for the
Woodlawn venture.”
On Community Colleges
Hatfield to Talk
At SU Dinner
Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield will re
lease a report on the role of Ore
gon’s community colleges at a
dinner at 8:30 p.m. today in the
Student Union.
This is the fifth in a series of j
“public conversations on educa-!
tion” dinners. More than 500 state
and local school administrators,
board members, and community
Richards to Speak
At YR Meeting
Young Republicans will hold
their first meeting of winter
term at 7 p.m. Thursday in the
Student Union.
Joe Richards, state legislator
from the Eugene area, will be
the featured speaker. He will dis
cuss “the new look in political
parties.”
Anyone wishing to join the YR
club may do so at this time and
all interested are invited to at
tend the meeting. Refreshments
will be served.
Room Change Made
For SDS Movies
The two SDS movies, “Thej
Women’s Strike for Peace” and 1
“Decision in the Streets,” will be
shown at 8 p.m. today in 221 ;
Allen, not 150 Science as re
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