Saul
Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, is thought to be the founder of modern
community organizing in America. He employed and inspired Fred Ross, the
community organizer who discovered and mentored Cesar Chavez and Dolores
Heurta. Raised as an Orthodox Jew, Alinsky had some rather un-orthodox methods
for organizing. "Alinsky once threatened to stage a 'fart in' to disrupt
the sensibilities of the city's establishment at a Rochester Philharmonic
concert. FIGHT (an acronym for Freedom, Independence [subsequently
Integration], God, Honor, Today) members were to consume large quantities of
baked beans after which, 'FIGHT's increasingly gaseous music-loving members
would hie themselves to the concert hall where they would sit expelling gaseous
vapors with such noisy velocity as to compete with the woodwinds.'" (Yes,
I stole this from Wikipedia because I didn't want to hand type it in, but the
reference is from Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky by Nicholas von Hoffman).
That's one way of using food to make a statement. I wonder if the baked beans
had pork in them?
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