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"Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF). . . . The book is structured around the political life of Ernesto Cortes, Jr., the lead IAF organizer who has earned recognition as one of the most powerful individuals in Texas (and who has been featured on Bill Moyers' "World of Ideas"). . . . Cortes fashioned a hard-ball Alinsky approach onto the natural organizing ground of church-based communities. The experiment began in San Antonio . . . and was successful in the transformation of San Antonio politics. Such dramatic success . . . led to similar efforts in Houston, Fort Worth, El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and New York, to mention only a few sites. Expansion beyond San Antonio meant organizing among Protestant churches, among African American and white, and among middle-class communities. In short, these organizing efforts have transcended the particularistic limits of religion, ethnicity, and class while maintaining a church base and sense of spiritual mission. . . . Rogers's clearly written book will be of great value to the scholar, student, and layperson interested in urban politics, ethnic relations, social movements, or church activism." Southwestern Historical Quarterly
- Sales Rank: #618387 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-30
- Released on: 2012-11-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Library Journal
Considering the importance which Latinos will have on American culture and politics in the 21st century, very little of a nonscholarly nature has been written about them. Rogers fills the gap somewhat with this journalistic biography of Ernesto Cortes, a grass-roots leader who teaches Latinos how to use the political system. A man who combines religion and secular ideology, Cortes is doing for the Latino communities nationally what Jesse Jackson did in Chicago a decade earlier. The book effectively captures the flavor of the movement in small, rural locales and in major urban centers, conveying Cortes's ideology and energy, as well as the issues close to the Latino heart. A welcome look at minority politics in the 1990s. Recommended for all libraries.
- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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" I am indebted - as no doubt you shall be upon reading this robust story of faith and power politics - to Mary Beth Rogers for a wonderful reminder that the American Revolution is not over. It lives on in the cold anger and warm heart of Ernesto Cortes." - Bill Moyers
"Cold Anger is a story about a new kind of intervention in politics by working poor people who incorporate their religious values into a struggle for power and visibility. It is about women and men who promote public and private hope, political and personal responsibility, community and individual transformation. Even joy. As such, it is a rare story in American politics these days." - Prologue
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Organizing based on values and relationships, not issues
By A Customer
In Cold Anger, Mary Beth Rogers examines how the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a network of church-based organizations, transforms the faith, religious beliefs, and values of disenfranchised, resigned, and politically powerless people into powerful public action that benefits the entire community. At the same time Rogers also reveals how not only the poor and working class have unwittingly given away their political power, but how white, upper-middle-class citizens have also consented to having power taken away from them in their benign trust of elected public officials.
The "cold anger" of the title is "not one based on sour resentments or a false sense of entitlement," but rather, "an anger that seethes at the injustices of life and transforms itself into a compassion for those hurt by life." Anger for Ernesto Cortes, co-founder of the IAF, and the people he organizes is "an emotion of hope-not of despair."
Rogers tells the story of how Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS), the first IAF-inspired organization of congregations, used that cold anger to move the city of San Antonio to spend more than $500 million for West Side improvements, including storm sewer systems that virtually ended flooding there. Through research actions, COPS members "exploded the myth most of them had accepted for years-that the city in its wisdom would take care of them in good time."
"We weren't looking for any handouts," according to one COPS member. "We're taxpayers and we found out our tax money wasn't working for us."
"The concept we're trying to develop is one of community, communal responsibility," says Cortes. "The work we do is about power and about building power and teaching people how to organize around their own interests, how to be effective. We need power to protect what we value."
Not surprisingly, many church members are initially uncomfortable with the idea of power. IAF organizers, however, seek to replace the traditional understanding of coercive power with one of relational power. According to Cortes, "there are only two ways to build power like this. It takes organized money or organized people. We're obviously not going to have a huge concentration of money, so when we're talking about power as a social concept, we're talking about two or more people coming together with a plan and acting on it." In addition, Cortes says, "we're trying to teach a system of internal accountability so that corruption won't happen." Cortes credits a large part of his understanding of relational power to Paul Tillich's Love, Power and Justice, in which Tillich proposes that love and power must be joined to produce justice.
"Organizing is a fancy word for relationship building," says Cortes. "If I want to organize you, I don't sell you an idea. What I do, if I'm smart, is try to find out what's your interest. What are your dreams? I try to kindle your imagination, stir the possibilities, and then propose some ways in which you can act on those dreams and act on those values and act on your own visions. You've got to be the owner. Otherwise, it's my cause, my organization. You've got nothing!"
Rogers describes the relational style of Sister Christine Stephens, a Catholic nun turned political organizer. "It is selective and sensitive, probing rather than prying. It is like maneuvering a freshly crafted key into a door lock, which, when it fits, seems to open you as well as the other person."
"When you sell, you tend to be arrogant," says Cortes. "You know it all ... You quit listening. You're not attentive."
"In proposing, rather than selling," Rogers writes, "Cortes believes you have to have flexibility, curiosity, patience, and a little vulnerability. And that involves some self-revelation as well as propositioning. The best organizers and leaders learn how to reveal themselves in small doses as part of the process of drawing out others ... The successful one-on-one becomes a give-and-take relationship, not a one-sided interview."
"If we don't go anywhere, it's because these one-on-ones don't develop ... This is where the spiritual action is," according to Cortes. "We teach people that the relationship is more important than the issue ... For you to grow and develop, you have to get out of yourself into the skins of others." According to Cortes, every time we engage another individual on a deep level of human understanding, we also develop ourselves spiritually and politically. "The one-on-one is the most radical thing we teach."
IAF organizers and leaders commit themselves to working with other people on a one-on-one basis "to help them grow beyond themselves and participate as a full citizen in the public life of their community."
The IAF ultimately distinguishes itself from other organizing efforts by attracting people not to issues, but rather, by encouraging church leaders to act on their gospel values, the roots of their public and private beliefs. "This is not merely politics we are engaged in," according to one COPS member, "but correcting injustice, which is God's work and the mission of the church."
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Textured portrait of Hispanic America
By A Customer
This would make a great movie -- a textured portrait of the vibrant but politically powerless Hispanic-American culture which has found its champion in Ernesto Cortes. Rogers's book brings his pioneering efforts in Texas to light and life in a way that's truly inspiring.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Activism Today
By DAW
Cortez motto was "power then program". This book describes an approach to activism that stresses building community strength before embracing political goals. Nothing is more pertinent at the moment. Ernesto Cortez is still alive and well and should be sought out by those who care about how their kids are taught. He has no patience with hopelessness, but believes strongly in developing affective strategies. This book is must reading for people who agree with these ideas.
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