Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics

Published: October, 1990  Pages: 240  Features: 10 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

“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 polifical 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. more... about Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics