hope. Saul Alinsky was born of Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Chicago in 1909. He understood what it meant to live on the edge, to struggle with how to live within shifting language houses that often put the powerless in ever more perilous situations. Without endorsing his political ideology, we can see in Alinsky a man who understood that imaginations are changed through the development of rules rather than the piling up of knowledge, information, and metrics. He developed a set of simple rules