Asserting ourselves effectively
So there’s this institutionalization of protest, so people sit back and say, ‘okay, I get all this anger, and yet I have no power, I’m impotent in terms of affecting policy.’
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Political empowerment
…voter turnout in provincial and national elections keeps on going down…I don’t think it’s a question of apathy…people have no real say in how things operate.
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Thinking anew
People need to come up with new arrangements, new ways of organizing society. So they need to think anew.
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Putting people and revolution in front
I don’t believe in models…but there are examples and when one stands up and fights for principle, when one puts a revolutionary interest, when one puts the interests of the people in the forefront you can accomplish…tremendous…things.
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Everyday winning
You know what [winning] looks like for me? [It] looks like my life. My life if my kids were around me…
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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.