Word: alperovitz
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...Martin Luther King Jr. called for everyone to organize his neighbors against the war in Vietnam. Nor did it start later that Sunday afternoon at 43 Martin Street when King rang Frederick Wiseman's doorbell. Vietnam Summer began seven weeks ago with a telephone call to Gar Alperovitz, fellow of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
...Alperovitz and others from the Harvard faculty have formed a committee for this purpose. They plan to train groups across the country to organize their own communities and weld people opposed to the war into an independent, political bloc...
...outline for national organizing against the war first appeared in a pamphlet by Gar Alperovitz, fellow of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Entitled "Teach Out," the pamphlet was distributed to peace marchers in New York and San Francisco...
...Alperovitz's pamphlet details a three phase "prototype model" for community organizing. A group headed by Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government, is testing the model in North Cambridge...
Once they find people who oppose the war, Alperovitz said, the next phase will be the formation of "discussion-action" groups in the community to study the war. After studying, the discussion group members will be urged to speak to their neighbors about the war and undertake "basic political action...