(Updated in italics) Popular conceptions of civic action in America have become extremely impoverished. While struggle goes on in many arenas of our society, coherent traditions of community organizing in America have mostly faded to myth in the popular imagination.

Old black-and-white newsreels of marching students, brave sharecroppers, and police-wielded water cannons from the 1960s flicker through our minds.  But these images have lost most of their concrete meaning and contain few coherent lessons for social action.  

I’ve been writing about community organizing, but I haven’t been clear about exactly what I mean by this.  More on the flip.

Didn't Bill O'Reilly engage in slander or libel when he compared Daily Kos members to Nazi's and KKK members?

The "Path to 9/11" propaganda piece is another Swift Boat attack, only this time they have managed to subvert one of the Big 3 networks directly.  If anything, this shows incontrovertibly the unholy alliance between corporate media, the Repiglican party, and the state in its full glory.

So, what should we have learned from the Swift Boat Liars incident, and what should we do about the Path to 9/11 Liars?

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