Who said you could only help in one way.

While reading Ch. 5 I learned a lot about what advocacy actually was and how it worked. I learned that advocacy can be a short term thing or it can be a long term commitment. I also learned that there is more than one way to provide advocacy. This was easily seen with the two articles that we had to read, the AVODAH website and “After Seattle: Anarchists get Organized”. One of the key differences between Beck’s advocacy and those of the AVODAH alumni is that the people in AVODAH concentrated more on the people in a small community with out protest or anything like that. While Beck on the other hand went around the country protesting trying to get her point across, kind of, by using force. It also seems like Beck is more interested in changing big things that have to do with businesses and “the man”, while AVODAH was more concentrated in the small Jewish communities. The relationship between Beck and people she works with is also different from the relationship that the people in AVODAH have. To me it seems like the relationships that Beck and her people have is more on the business level, that they are only concentrated on what they have to do. They also seem more like a bunch of educated hippies trying to make a difference. AVODAH on the other hand seems like a tight nit group that have many things in common and that are trying to help out a group of people that they can relate to. That to me is also a big difference between the two groups of advocates, the people they are trying to help. Beck and her people seem more interested in helping people in third world countries that they really don’t have a personal connection with and will probably never actually meet. While AVODAH seems to believe that they are helping people in the U.S. that are in the Jewish community. They believe they are helping a group of people that they can actually meet and build a bond with. The organization of the two organizations is different in the way that the AVODAH is more organized and focused on a specific goal. They have the exact number of people that they want working and they know who they want to help. Beck’s organization on the other hand seems to just go around the country trying to get their voice heard and their point across. They don’t really seem to have a goal other than that they want to help out poorer counties.