Activist scenes
One of the things we do a really bad job of is fostering a sense of hope.
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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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Turning the tide
Turning the tide I20 Jan. 29, 2015 I guess what I keep hoping is that the people who are using the skills of working together, of growing food, making things, of connecting with people despite barriers and differences, that when there is an inevitable big shift in this particularly unsustainable political and economical world we
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Hope and fear for the future
If nobody does anything then what is our future going to look like?
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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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Indigenous struggles and deep democracy
[it] was very interesting…and inspiring to see Six Nations, which is this Indigenous group that has the oldest surviving democratic constitution in the world, who have been actively fighting colonialism for five hundred years, who have retained a great deal of their culture in the face of genocide, and still works by those sorts of principles that we were trying to discover in 2001.
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Other worlds are possible
The Zapatistas offered a vision that other worlds were still possible.