The “Ties that Bind” Friends (SDS) of Past Still Friends with Obama?

July 30, 2010

Glenn Beck has been tying radicals to “The Man” in the White House.

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Research done by me:

FIRST READ THIS:

Radical Alinsky-style Teaching School: Midwest Academy

Read HERE…..

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ADD THIS VIDEO;

LISTEN CAREFULLY TO HEATHER BOOTH’s OWN WORDS:

NOTE DATE OF VIDEO: February 26, 2009 (Obama inaugurated in January)

Gives a history description of the Progressive movement.

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Do YOUR OWN RESEARCH HERE:

http://www.midwestacademy.com/

LOOK at the Board of Directors for Midwest Academy and their bios…..

http://www.midwestacademy.com/board-directors

MA was founded in 1973 by radical activists Heather Booth and her husband Paul Booth, a founder and former National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and former President of Chicago’s Citizen Action Program (CAP), formed in 1969 by trainees from Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). Mr. Booth is currently an assistant to Gerald McEntee, President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a public employees union.

The Midwest Academy’s 425-page manual Organizing for Social Change is widely used by radicals as a textbook on how to conduct direct action organizing. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and the Rev. Jesse Jackson have encouraged their supporters to read it.

The Midwest Academy has received funding from numerous foundations, including, among others, theJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Retirement Research Foundation, the Woods Charitable Trust, the Woods Fund of Chicago, the Energy Foundation, the Wieboldt Foundation, the Foundation for Deep Ecology, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the  George Soros-created Open Society Institute.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6725

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Director Heather Booth tied to Obama.

Husband Paul also a director  (SDS).

Booth trained Andy Stern!

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1830

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Muckety Map of Heather Booth Connections:

http://www.muckety.com/01B96120C5C6F706D9FDFBCCB91183ED.map

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According to the Freedom Road Socialist Organisation, the Midwest Academy;

Probably the most well-known organizing method is Alinskyism, named after Saul Alinsky, a Chicago-born community organizer who helped set up the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council and later the Industrial Areas Foundation in the 1930s. (Today in New York Alinskyism can be found in groups that do neighborhood-based organizing like ACORN, Mothers on the Move, TICO as well as NYPIRG). The Mid-West Academy is a training center set up by members of DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] that draws heavily from Alinskyism.

Barack Obama was a disciple of Alinsky while working a “community organisor” in Chicago in the early “80s. later he did considerable legal work for the radical community group ACORN, which is closely linked to the Midwest Academy.

ACORN and Chicago DSA formed the backbone of the leftist New Party which Obama worked closely with during his successful 1996 Illinois State Senate bid.

Steve Max, associate director the Midwest Academy is a DSA Vice-Chair, while academy founder Heather Booth and current executive director Jackie Kendall both have close ties to Chicago DSA.

Jackie Kendall also knew Barack Obama when he first worked in Chicago.

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-file-14-socialist-led-mega-union.html

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Obama File 42 Obama’s Socialist Neighbour, Jackie Grimshaw

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-42-obamas-socialist.html

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NOW WHY would our President have Heather Booth, a radical and the director of the Midwest Academy at the SIGNING of the Financial Reform Bill?

Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; Biden also attends

July 21, 2010

Expected attendees: Highlighted “notables”

Pam Banks
Consumers Union

Joseph Biden

Alan Blinder
Princeton

Heather Booth
Midwest Academy

Robert L. Bowser
East Orange

Bill Brodsky
Chicago Board Options Exchange

Michael Calhoun
Center For Responsible Lending

Martha Coakley
Massachusetts

Archibald Cox
Barclays America

Joe Dear
CalPERS/Council of Institutional Investors

Bob Diamond
Barclays

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.)
U.S. Senate

Camden Fine
Independent Community Bankers Association

Robin Fox

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Timothy F. Geithner
Treasury Department

Andrew Giordano

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Gerald Hassell
Bank of New York Mellon

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.)
U.S. Senate

Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Nancy Leamond
AARP

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
U.S. Senate

Gary Locke
Commerce Department

Lisa Madigan
Illinois

Heather McGhee
Demos

Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Ed Mierzwinski
Consumer Program

Thomas V. Mike Miller
Maryland

Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Janet Murguia
National Council of La Raza

Vikram Pandit
Citi

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Rep. Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Travis Plunkett
Consumer Federation of America

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.)
U.S. Senate

Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.)
U.S. Senate

Lauren Saunders
National Consumer Law Center

Paul A. Volcker
Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Elizabeth Warren
COP and Harvard

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
U.S. House of Representatives

Mel Watt

Ann Yerger
Council of Institutional Investors

Nancy Zirkin
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/potus-tracker/2010/07/21/6516/

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Michelle Obama worked with Bernadine Dohrn (Bill Ayers wife) at Sidley Austin.

America:  “Had Enough” of the Obama/Progressive agenda?

DID HEATHER BOOTH train Obama?  Did Obama attend the Midwest Academy?  Did Michelle Obama?

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NOT RACIST.

NOT VIOLENT.

JUST NO LONGER SILENT.