An activist now charged with assaulting two U.S. Marines as part of an Antifa mob has ties to Heather Booth, a senior Democrat and chief DNC trainer who founded a training academy devoted to the teachings of the late pro-violence … Continue reading Antifa thug worked for chief DNC trainer: from Democrat insider to likely jailbird, Joseph Alcoff has come a long way
From yesterday’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Heather Booth By Matthew Vadum When today’s labor leaders want to hone their gangster skills they call 1960s radical Heather Booth, a mentor to generations of the activist Left. A disciple of Saul Alinsky, the socialist-feminist Booth co-founded the Chicago-based Midwest Academy, a training institute for community organizers. “Alinsky is to community organizing as Freud is to psychoanalysis,” she says. The Midwest Academy is funded in part by radical left-wing philanthropies such as George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Tides Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago. (Barack Obama and Bill Ayers served together … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Heather Booth
Who said it’s a stereotype that liberals and left-wingers sit around singing ‘Kumbaya’? (Or in this case, ‘Solidarity Forever.’) That what’s neo-communist, Saul Alinsky-inspired, community organizer Heather Booth did with a group of Marxists at the left-wing Taking the American Dream Back conference in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2011. Booth has been at this for a long time. Like any good Alinskyite organizer she poses as a mere liberal instead of as an anti-American radical. Here’s a video of Booth with commentary: * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help … Continue reading Marxist Heather Booth on VIDEO: Progressive FAIL: Liberals Really DO Sit Around Singing ‘Kumbaya’!
(originally published at Front Page Magazine, a publication of David Horowitz Freedom Center) Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback By Matthew Vadum Radical activist groups associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic terrorism and sabotage – possibly with his blessing. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda. The idea of leftists using terrorism to achieve political objectives isn’t new. Leon Trotsky supported the use of terrorism to advance so-called social justice. Decades before an ice-axe found its way into his skull, Trotsky argued in Dictatorship vs. Democracy that … Continue reading Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback