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Vincent De Paul And Saul Alinsky: Community Organizers, Charles Plock C.M.
Vincent De Paul And Saul Alinsky: Community Organizers, Charles Plock C.M.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
In this annual Saint Vincent de Paul lecture at DePaul University, Charles Plock explores the similarities between Vincent and Saul Alinsky as community organizers. Alinksy founded the Industrial Areas Foundation and organized different types of laborers in different parts of the United States so that they gained better working conditions. According to Plock, Vincent and Alinsky were practical people who were able to meet short-term needs while addressing the larger injustices that caused those needs. Plock writes, “Organizing people and empowering men and women is a truly Vincentian way of evangelizing” especially if it is done in partnership with the …