{"id":8832,"date":"2011-10-25T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2011-10-28T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:02:49","slug":"radical-obama-led-occupychicago-%e2%80%93-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/10\/radical-obama-led-occupychicago-%e2%80%93-1988.html","title":{"rendered":"Radical Obama Led OccupyChicago \u2013 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Obama at anti-war protest, 2002 (Source: Verum Serum)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn\u2019t just have\u00a0supported<\/a>\u00a0the Occupy protests.<\/p>\n

He would have organized them.<\/p>\n

From Stanley Kurtz\u2019s essential\u00a0Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism<\/a>, pp. 117-8:<\/p>\n

In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO\u2019s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping a landfill expansion deal.<\/em><\/p>\n

We know of Obama\u2019s involvement in this demonstration only because his supporters in 2008 felt it necessary to rebut charges that, contrary to his claims of inter-racial healing, he had organized exclusively with blacks. Only then did Obama\u2019s former colleagues from UNO [United Neighborhood Organization, a largely Mexican group] of Chicago reveal that he had helped to plan and lead this multi-ethnic demonstration against landfill expansion on Chicago\u2019s South Side.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026Shouting \u201cNo deals!\u201d somewhere between eighty and a hundred UNO-DCP [Developing Communities Project, a black group organized by Obama] marched to a local bank. There they broke into a meeting being conducted by the bank president and local community leaders. The group was exploring the possibility of a deal with Waste Management. The protestors, presumably including Obama, surrounded the meeting table while [Mary-Ellen] Montes [of UNO] told the negotiators, \u201cWe will fight you every step of the way.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama was also likely involved with other aggressive UNO protests, including protests for school reform, through which he likely met former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers is\u00a0involved<\/a>\u00a0in the Occupy protests today.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, Obama maintained his ties to radical activists, and \u201cchannel[ed] foundation funding to his confrontational Alinskyite colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that Obama\u2019s ties to the Occupy movement\u2013its forbears, its tactics, and some of its current luminaries\u2013run deep.<\/p>\n

This is what \u201ccommunity organizing\u201d looks like.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/jpollak\/2011\/10\/25\/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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