Bad pollen allergy kept me from posting this yesterday. But I did participate in the podcast Labor Goes to the Movies, talking about Activist Explorer and movies focused on activists. I think of activists as the worldwide, wildly diverse grab-bag of boat-rockers, neck-sticker-outers, city-hall-fighters, tree-huggers, community-builders, movement-makers, organizers, agitators, rabble-rousers, word-weavers, consciousness-raisers and creative gadflies struggling to create a just and compassionate world.
Great article. I love your use of language and your appraisal of the pros and challenges of activism. I would call out the beast as capitalism so people can identify the system causing our suffering. Thank you.
I want to add a third basic question, if you'll consider adding it to your list. I'm activist on issues that people who agree with me on other issues may disagree quite vehemently with me on. *Depending on the issue,* I find common cause with people who identify as radicals, progressives, and libertarians. I refuse the whole notion of enemies, and division; I think in terms of ecology and each of us having a niche in the ecology when I think about diversity of opinion among people who do not accept the master narrative, but respond to it in diverse ways. Dear Abby, can this marriage be saved? Do I still have a place in the activist Beloved Community?
Great article. I love your use of language and your appraisal of the pros and challenges of activism. I would call out the beast as capitalism so people can identify the system causing our suffering. Thank you.
I want to add a third basic question, if you'll consider adding it to your list. I'm activist on issues that people who agree with me on other issues may disagree quite vehemently with me on. *Depending on the issue,* I find common cause with people who identify as radicals, progressives, and libertarians. I refuse the whole notion of enemies, and division; I think in terms of ecology and each of us having a niche in the ecology when I think about diversity of opinion among people who do not accept the master narrative, but respond to it in diverse ways. Dear Abby, can this marriage be saved? Do I still have a place in the activist Beloved Community?