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BigGov targets USAction in witch hunt: Max "likely trained" Obama in "Alinsky method of organizing toward revolution"

November 09, 2009 1:58 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From a November 8 post on BigGovernment.com

Who is Steve Max: Ward Churchill Meets Rahm Emanuel

by Andrew Marcus

From the archives of the extreme progressive left comes this little ditty written in 2001 by SDS founding member, and DSA Vice Chair, Steve Max.

In November 2001, just 8 weeks after the devastating terrorist attacks on New York and DC, Steve Max delivered a speech to the progressive "USAction Delegation Assembly", on the topic of taking advantage of the new crisis as an opportunity to advance a progressive agenda.

The speech reads like Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill and Rahm "never let a good crisis go to waste" Emanuel, all rolled up into one offensive Progressive rant.

Why does any of this matter? Because Steve Max, as a co-founder of Citizen Action (which later became USAction) and the Midwest Academy, is one of the people who likely trained SEIU's Andy Stern, Rahm Emanuel, and even President Bracak Obama, in the Alinsky method of organizing toward revolution.

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President Barack Obama is deeply connected  to Steve Max's Midwest (SDS-DSA) Academy and Citizen Action. Back in his Chicago days, then State Senator Obama was asked to deliver the Key Note address a fund-raising dinner for their sister organization, Citizen Action (Co-founder of the ACORN Working Families Party).

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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (November 09, 2009 2:52 pm ET)
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      Alinsky has been dead almost 40 years now. It's time to give his name a rest.
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    • Author by bigbee (November 09, 2009 3:39 pm ET)
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      So, deeply connected = spoke at a dinner of a sister organization. Got it.

      I almost fell out of my chair on that one.
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    • Author by wookie (November 09, 2009 3:55 pm ET)
         
      Typical wingnut style writing. The only quotes are from Churchill not Max. The righties are left believing they know what Max's views are but they really know nothing.
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    • Author by historygeek001 (November 09, 2009 5:01 pm ET)
         
      Wow. Babbling lunacy at its best. Or worst. (Depends on how you look at it.)
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 09, 2009 5:07 pm ET)
         
      Talk about a stretch, this one has to break the rubber band.
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