Violence and social change
There’s ash and bits of charred ground and I don’t think that, in and of itself, can make lasting change. But there is a time and place for that explosion.
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Local alternatives
[What] if we redeveloped our own local economies in North America and supported ourselves on the basis of what we could grow and what we could produce in our own countries so that we wouldn’t have to be continuously stealing resources from other countries and employing people in other countries?
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Imagining alternatives
It’s easy to be angry, and rant, and say the things that you don’t agree with but when [do] you take the next step of, okay, how can we build something new?
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Organizing alternatives
I’ve [retreated] from being so action focused because I didn’t see the sum of all the actions I was doing actually building anything that was creating any fighting potential to actually challenge the social conditions around me.
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Means and ends
You have to decide before your action, what is my end result? What do I want to achieve?
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Indigenous knowledge
…if human society is going to get through what we’re going through now, it’s going to be because of the knowledge of indigenous peoples.
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Radical values
My own feeling is that there are values that I think I’d like to see broadened to be values that people can work with.