Imagining the future together
I’m saddened that I don’t have the imagination to understand [how] we’re going to get from a to b but I think we need to discuss how we’re going to get from a and b together because there are smarter people than me.
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Electoral politics and lived realities
I do not like electoral politics but I consider electoral politics to be important particularly given the fact that as the left we’re so fucking weak.
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Care and organizing
So how we organize, and how we talk to each other, and how we behave is extremely important.
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Moving on
…I think this generation of activists has a body of knowledge based on the trajectory of things that have happened in the last thirty, forty years that you are actually more humble about.
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Imperfect victories
The problem is that those kinds of wins are always so finite in time and they’re not perfect.
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Selling people short
Personally I’m really critical of [the belief that] in order to mobilize people [you] have [to] appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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Whiteness and the limits to movements
….I think there’s the whiteness of our movements and then there’s racism in Halifax and where the activist community fits in to addressing that.