You forgot to include the part about being on the wrong side of the education debate, in your post, Benj. Community organizing is not what Moses did was called. MLK was not a Community Organizer in any way shape or form of what the term Organizer refers to today.

I am not going to suggest that the urgency of and the trials of and tribulations of MLK, or the anti Marcos folks and what our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are not the same or similar even if their methods are different. But what is it that today’s Urban centered US Community Organizers are really attempting to change? What is it that Arafat really sought to change?

Benj, I believe you are asking the wrong question. I believe this is so because IMO, you are seeking an answer other than what reality suggests is there.