A nation of community-organized grievances
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon - Saul Alinsky
• Summary of Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals'
On this day: December 2President Herbert Hoover goes before the U.S. Congress and asks for a $150 million 'stimulus package' to help generate jobs and transform the economy (1930)
The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution (1956)
Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975)
b: Martin Abern (1898), Clark Clifford (1906), Harry Reid (1939); d: Pablo Escobar (1993)
