President Barack Obama’s budget added over $100 billion in federal taxpayer money for so-called “education,” meaning it will be spent by graduates of Saul Alinsky’s school of radical community organizing and/or the Chicago Democratic machine. We are grateful to Pamela Geller from AtlasShrugs.com for revealing the shocking employ of some of these funds.
Obama is using public schools to recruit a private army of high school students who “build on the movement that elected President Obama, empowering students across the country to help us advance our agenda.” We now know that Obama’s “agenda” is to move the United States toward European-style socialism.
Obama’s online activities during his Obama for America campaign were renamed Organizing for America (OFA) to recruit students to join the Obama cult and become activists for his goals. Geller discovered that an 11th-grade government teacher in Massillon, Ohio, passed out a sign-up sheet bearing the Obama “O” logo, asking students to become interns with Organizing for America.
These trainees will undergo intensive nine-week training using comprehensive lesson plans. Recommended readings include Saul Alinsky’s notorious “Rules for Radicals,” left-wing activist Rinku Sen’s “Stir It Up: Lessons From Community Organizing and Advocacy,” and individual excerpts from “Dreams From My Father” on Obama’s days as a community organizer in Chicago .
Republican students will be excluded from the internship program, requiring applicants to answer questions revealing their politics. One example is: “What issue facing our country is important to you and why?”
Geller said the goal of this training to become Alinsky-style community organizers is “obviously to elect more Democrats.” The internship program aims to put children to work during the 2010 elections.
The Organization for America registration sheet begins with the following instructions: “Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, builds on the movement that elected President Obama by enabling students across the country to help us advance our agenda for change.” We the proposal explains that this national apprenticeship program “works to make the change we fought so hard for in 2008 a reality in 2010 and beyond.”
This isn’t the first time Obama has tried to draw students into the Obama cult. Last fall, instructions sent to all schools by Education Secretary Arne Duncan added a highly political dimension to Obama’s speech, which was broadcast to public school children on September 8.
Geller explained the broad political dimensions of the up-to-date internship program. OFA student interns will be trained in the goals and language of the left: “anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, (Bill) Ayers, promoting the LGBT agenda, global warming, softness toward jihad, and illegal immigration.”
The next item on OFA’s reading list is “The New Organizers” by Zack Exley. He boasts of the Obama campaign’s “emerging generation of organizers” who, “almost unnoticed by anyone… built the progressive movement as an entirely new and potentially lasting popular organization in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.”
The 10-page “Internship Provider National Curriculum” describes in great detail the tactics that interns will be taught. It includes the following components: “Using stories as an organizational tool, building relationships and teams, mobilizing to win problems (presenting problems), health care design.”
Passing Obamacare is one of the main goals of this intern project. The curriculum provides “insight into the health care campaign strategy and plan” and “further motivation to work on the issue.”
The sign-up sheet states that the “goal” of training these students is to “build community” among the trainees and teach them “to be leaders in OFA’s organizational work.” After all, Barack Obama knows a lot about being a community organizer – it was his only real job before he entered politics.
The job outlook may be bleak for many Americans, but it will be rosy for graduates of Obama’s internship program. Once students are fully trained in Alinsky-style community organizing, they will be eligible to serve in Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, or Learn and Serve America.
These three so-called “service” organizations, which donate millions of dollars each year to left-wing groups, are overseen by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The United States Senate has just confirmed the nomination as the corporation’s up-to-date CEO, Patrick Corvington, who was a senior official of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has donated over one and a half million dollars to the ACORN network.
