Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> The point of an income-divided analysis for left-wing organizers,
> though, is not to see if a given state is more to the left or right
> of the national average but to identify the main targets for
> organizing in the state and work the hardest to enlist their active
> participation in political projects for which they are organizing.
> In the case of leftists working in Kansas, the target should be
> unquestionably the poorest.
> --
> Yoshie
>
> Care advised here; people with household incomes of less than $15K
> are very likely indeed to be either retired or disabled, so (with no
> disrespect whatever to PEN-L members who are retired or disabled, of
> course) it would make sense to be realistic about how much active
> participation one might be expecting from them.
>
> dd

Retirement actually helps you become more politically active than
before, provided you aren't severely disabled.  Seniors tend to vote
more regularly than younger people, too.  Among the households with
the lowest incomes, there must be many youths as well.  They also
tend to be more available for political participation, until they
start their own families.
--
Yoshie

* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
* Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/>
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
<http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>,
<http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/>
* Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
* Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
* Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>