While talking with Samhita last month, I remembered reading Laura Miller's Salon.com article "Barack by the books" a couple of days before.
[...] In Chicago, Obama worked for the Developing Communities Project, a church-based group following the grass-roots organizing principles laid out by Saul Alinsky. Alinksy, a Chicago native, famously organized the impoverished Back of the Yards neighborhood in the 1930s and trained several generations of organizers, including César Chávez, before publishing "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals" in 1971. (He died the following year.) [...]
So I said "Rules for Radicals, Moves for Media." Then I thought, no, maybe "vs. Media."
I remembered Brian Stelter's New York Times article "The Facebooker Who Befriended Obama."
"In March 2009, people are either going to be dealing with media, organizing and technology by figuring out how to help Obama or combat McCain," I said. "Or, and let's be real, keep Obama on his toes. So he doesn't just do another epic fail like today's vote on FISA."
So we started looking around at last year's panel ideas, I consulted last year's list of panels I thought would be good to check out and she brainstormed in between meetings and training sessions. And we both agreed that it would be an honor to be on a panel with the other.
Now we just have to figure out how to make it happen. That, dear reader, may just be where you come in.
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