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The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy
Video documentary recounting Alinsky's life and work, and reviewing two contemporary IAF members' activities. Includes bibliography and information on filmmakers.
http://www.itvs.org/democraticpromise/
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Interview with Saul Alinsky
In this lengthy serialized interview, the organizer talks about his plans to mobilize the "silent majority", his upbringing and early influences, and his early successful campaigns, including Chicago's Back of the Yards slum.
http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky2.htm
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Saul Alinsky
An overview of Alinsky's work, along with the prologue from "Rules for Radicals".
http://www.latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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Labor Unrest and Public Policy - Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
Article summarizing the organizing approach, particularly as used by public sector unions in the US.
http://www.psrf.org/issues/rules.jsp
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Lessons From the Life of Saul Alinsky
A sermon by Unitarian Universalist John E. Gibbons includes anecdotes about Alinsky, emphasizing religious and moral connections to his work.
http://www.uubedford.org/sermons/alinsky.htm
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Back of the Yards
A contemporary account of Alinsky's first major organizing effort which united diverse and contentious elements of the Chicago packinghouse neighborhood to solve common community problems.
http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/40c22.htm
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Chicago Organizing: Tough, Cat-Clawing, Bloody
An organizer describes his own work in the South/Southwest side of Chicago, 1969-73, with some critical opinions of the sustainability of Alinsky's "visionless short-term pragmatism".
http://www.hunterbear.org/chicago_organizing.htm
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Chicago Historical Society
Bibliography of books on or by Alinsky.
http://www.chicagohistory.org/static_media/pdf/historyfair/alinsky_saul.pdf
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