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Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win Paperback – November 20, 2007

by Robert Creamer (Author)

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To turn this historic opportunity into long-term political realignment, Progressives must forcefully reassert our commitment to fundamental progressive values and to our vision for the future. Some people think that in order to win, Democrats need to move to the political center by adopting conservative values and splitting the difference between progressive and conservatives positions. History shows they are wrong. To win the next election and to win in the long term, we need to redefine the political center. In this book one of America s most experienced political strategists and organizers lays out a broad strategy for progressive victory and describes the tactics needed to win real-world political battles one at a time. The book analyzes: The self-interests of voters; Our targets for political communication; The principles of political messaging; The secrets of winning electoral and issue campaigns; What we mean by progressive values; How to describe a compelling progressive vision for the future.

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If Progressives are ready to move beyond the Age of W into a winning era, they can start with Stand Up Straight. This is more than a call to arms. This is a battle plan from one of the best campaign minds in America. Bob Creamer takes his readers from values to votes with practical tactics and insight gathered over decades of experience. This book is for players...spectators need not apply. - Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois), Senate Democratic Whip --Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois), Senate Democratic Whip

If every activist in America read Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight, we could change our country. This book will help bring on the New Progressive Era. It's that good - Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) --Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

Bob Creamer has been at the center of every major progressive political movement in America for four decades. If anyone in America knows how to run and win issue campaigns it is Bob. Stand Up Straight is nothing less than the bible for progressive political activists. - Brad Woodhouse, President, Americans United for Change --Brad Woodhouse, President, Americans United for Change

About the Author

AUTHOR BIO: Robert Creamer has been a political organizer and strategist for almost four decades. He and his firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, work with many of the country s most significant issue campaigns. He was one of the major architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security. He is a consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, pass universal health care, change America s budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform. His clients have included labor unions, public interest groups, and advocacy organizations like MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change and USAction. He has also worked on hundreds of electoral campaigns at the local, state and national levels. Creamer is married to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois.

Paperback: 618 pages
Publisher: Seven Locks Press (November 20, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979585295
ISBN-13: 978-0979585296
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.5 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 88 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,036,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1292 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Elections & Political Process > Elections
- #2580 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines > Conservatism & Liberalism

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K. GROENHAGEN

The Socialist Coalition's playbook

November 8, 2013

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I believe this book should be a must-read for CONSERVATIVES/CONSTITUTIONALISTS. Creamer’s 628-page book is full of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions. It is also poorly edited. For example, he refers to Harold Washington, the late mayor of Chicago, as “Herald Washington,” and notes that our closest animal relatives are “guerrillas, chimpanzees and the baboons of Africa.” Nevertheless, Creamer’s book is an invaluable resource for constitutionalists.

Creamer has spent more than four decades in community organizing. His “first serious issue campaign involved pollution and the legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky.” He later joined Illinois Public Action, “the progressive coalition,” which he directed for many years. While at Illinois Public Action, Creamer met and married DSAer Jan Schakowsky. Schakowsky is currently a U.S. representative and a vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). CPC is aligned with Democratic Socialists of America, which, in turn, is part of the Socialist International. The roots of the Socialist International go all the way back to Karl Marx.

The first few pages of Stand Up Straight! include words of praise from many individuals representing groups that make up the Socialist Coalition. These individuals include John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, Heather Booth and Jackie Kendall of the Midwest Academy, Wes Boyd of MoveOn.org, Chuck Loveless and John Cameron of AFSCME, Greg Gazzullo of the Gamaliel Foundation, Roger Hickey and Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future, David Axelrod, Jeff Blum and William McNary of USAction, CPC members Reps. Jim McGovern John Lewis, Andy Stern of SEIU, and Miles Rapoport of Demos.

The partial client list of Creamer’s firm, Strategic Consulting Group (SCG), reads like a who’s who of the Socialist Coalition. These clients include ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Campaign for America's Future, Midwest Academy, Natural Resources Defense Council, SEIU, USAction, and United Steelworkers Union of America.

Creamer is also a partner with Democracy Partners. Other partners include Heather Booth and Jackie Kendall of the Midwest Academy, John Hennelly, who served for four years as the National Field Director for Politics for the SEIU (he also worked with Creamer at SCG prior to taking a position with the SEIU), Christine Pelosi, who is the daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Joe Sandler, who served as general counsel of the 1996 Democratic National Convention and as outside counsel to the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions, and Mike Lux, who has been the CEO of his own consulting firm, Progressive Strategies, since its beginning in 1999. While serving with Iowa Citizen Action Network during the 1980s, Lux was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Given Creamer’s longtime association with the Socialist Coalition, Stand Up Straight! is essentially that coalition’s playbook. Read it to gain a better understanding of the socialists’ tactics and strategies, and then adopt and adapt tactics and strategies that constitutionalists can also use.

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La Nelda V. Hughes

This one is for seriously active political participants

March 28, 2010

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This book would have been very interesting to me during the 30+ years I was actively involved in political campaigns. At my age (68), I don't have enough energy left to put all the ideas and suggestions to work.

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James G. Mcdonald

Progressive/ Demo plan for "Gigantic Block" of immigrant voters

December 16, 2008

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The goal of Creamer's book is to guide the "re-establishment of the dominance of progressive values" in America.
On pages 554-555, immigration reform is discussed as needed for illegal aliens so that they will work for higher wages and not continue to "drag down the wages of all workers across the board." Also he claims reform is good because it will keep families together in the USA.
Then Creamer's self-interest bursts into the open. He says that the "immigration battle [legalizing illegal aliens] is also important because it will have an enormous impact on the battle for power between the progressive and conservative forces in American Society." He emphasizes getting the illegal aliens on the path to citizenship so they will be eligible for "voting rights by 2012 and 2016."
Creamer then looks at the 30 million legal immigrants "who could apply for citizenship [and voting]." The end result: a "gigantic block of progressive voters - a block that could be decisive in the battle for the future."
The book can be of value to nearly anyone, right or left, new to politics, as it offers many strategies and guidance on successful political operations. The leftist / progressive goals may wear on some readers.
I must openly complain about the index. A book well over 600 pages needs a good index. I looked up "Charlie Wilson" in the Index and found the page referenced to be in the middle of the text of the MLK "I have a dream" speech. I never found the "Charlie Wilson" page. The pages on immigration reform are on 554-555 while the index says they are on pages 538-538, almost twenty pages off.
The book is inventive, engaging and broad-ranging. Credit must be given to the quiet contemplative months Creamer spent in prison writing it.

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How can you stand up straight if your crooked?

October 22, 2016

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I thought it was going to be a book about helping my posture. Instead it was more relative to a book of sex positions, it teaches you how to F$@# people.

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Bunny Galladora

Progressive Battle Plans to Ruin the Country

February 1, 2010

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This is a MUST READ for any person interested in politics....
expecially TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party people.
You must learn how the Progressives plan to change our country....not for the better.
In the words of Senate Democratic Whip, Senator Richard Durbin (D- Illinois), this book is the "battle plan."
Lend it to everyone you know who is concerned about the future of our country.

Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win

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... hack that organizes paid actors to instigate political events like exposed here https

October 17, 2016

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This is written by the political hack that organizes paid actors to instigate political events like exposed here [...]

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L. Saucedo

Winning Recipe for Progressives

December 9, 2009

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Although this book came out 2 years ago, it remains a great blueprint for progressive victory. It was a rather ambitious project from the start and the book could actually be broken into three books: strategy/tactics, case histories, and policy.

Robert Creamer is the 2009 recipient of the the Lifetime Achievement award from the Midwest Academy.

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One Star

October 24, 2016

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Basically, thev Author believes in cheating - as proven by his real life activities

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