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This 4 page paper discusses the book "Activism, Inc." by Dana Fisher, and uses an example from the first Clinton campaign to illustrate why true grassroots organizing is better than paying "professional" organizers. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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true grassroots effort on the part of progressive organizations. Instead, it has been outsourced to professional fundraisers who put troops in the field in a particular city or state for
a particular election, raise money, get out the vote, and then disappear again until the next election cycle (Fisher, 2006). Although Democrats have been successful in raising money, they have
not (until this month) been successful at winning elections. And it is Fishers argument that the reason they are failing is because they are hiring professionals to do their outreach
rather than doing it themselves. The Republicans, Fisher believes, are doing well because they are taking advantage of a system that is already in place, and which is "a very
different model of organization" (Fisher, 2006). Instead of hiring ("outsourcing") the work to professional fundraisers and organizers, the Republicans "work through pre-existing civic associations formed by churches and other locally
grounded networks to create lasting connections with its political base" (Fisher, 2006). The Republicans are able to tape into an "extensive network of local groups that the Coalition developed since
its creation in the late 1980s" (Fisher, 2006). The irony of the situation is that the Democrats decision to use professionals stems from the fact that their funding dried up
(Fisher, 2006). The Republicans continually outspend the Democrats and also raise much more money; thus, the Democrats have turned to professionals to raise money to battle the people who have
enough money not to hire professionals. And they have paid for it by losing election after election. The basic problem is that professional fundraisers come from all over the map;
they are not local, they dont know the people; they dont know the issues, and the voters sense it. While progressives probably understand that using professionals is done because there
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