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Or, perhaps, they don't.

If those who staff a "revolutionary" nonprofit organization wind up supporting their lifestyle, long term, by massaging The System's major charitable institutions for money and recognition -- who, exactly, is using whom?

Paolo Vescia

Members of SOUL's teaching collective (Genevieve Gonzáles on far left).

Paolo Vescia

Harmony Goldberg.

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"In my day, poverty programs sucked off the good leadership in the black community," said Michael Napp, a 55-year-old peace activist, at a recent anti-war demonstration in Dolores Park. "They got a vested interest in The System and moved to the suburbs. We called them poverty pimps."