Patrick Crowley

Who is Patrick Crowley?

Patrick Crowley is an American union organizer, blogger, and community activist currently living in Lincoln, Rhode Island. A graduate of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Crowley is one of many who entered the labor movement during the mid-1990s when the AFL-CIO President John Sweeney issued a call to arms for a new generation of Union organizers to re-energize the American labor movement. He is a student of the philosophy of Saul Alinsky, author of, among other works, Rules for Radicals. Crowley made reference to Alinsky in a 2008 newspaper review of David Sirota's book The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Popular Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington.