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...Ceasar L. McDowell, one of three special issue editors for the journal, said that "It's easy for Blacks to talk about racism and its effects by themselves, but this puts racism right in the hands of readers. It reaches a 'mainstream.'" McDowell is a 1988 graduate of the Graduate School of Education and a professor at Boston College...
Effective as Ceasar is, EPISO's real successes are the product of its rank and file and of a basic strategy called community action: first sell the downtrodden on their ability to bring about massive change within the system, then inspire them to go out and do it. The tactics are ingeniously simple but hardly new. They date to the 1930s when Alinsky used them in an Irish-American slum behind Chicago's stockyards...
Often, EPISO's workers encounter cold stares and slammed doors. Ceasar encourages them to return. "Once people understand they can change things," she explains, "the apathy starts to wash away." Hundreds of one-on-one meetings hasten action. Key volunteers work the neighborhoods on weekends, always heeding IAF's golden rule: "Don't do for others what they can do for themselves...
...chief agitator, Ceasar, stays behind the scenes, badgering politicos, gathering IOUs, mapping recruitment drives. "It's easier to talk with a public official," she explains, "when you've got 30,000 signatures behind / you." Ernie Macias, who has been waiting ten years in his hillside trailer for water, says with a chuckle, "Sister knows how to give people hell...
American Ideas introduces you to Sister Pearl Ceasar, a Roman Catholic nun in El Paso's Rio Grande Valley. Using the precepts developed by the late Saul Alinsky, a Chicago social activist, she is leading a campaign to bring drinking water to impoverished families along the Mexican border...