…the very ethos of this economy has to be overcome, has to be destroyed because as long as the economy is running on the basis of profit, and accumulation of wealth, and growth we can never achieve equality because it’s the antithesis of the system.
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.
….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.
Diversity of tactics – really what it boils down to is black bloc versus no black bloc and that…gets turned into violence versus non-violence [but] they don’t line up.
I think that the left does suffer from too much…crippling talk.
…I think that our strategy right now should be to be talking to people about what’s fucked about the system that we live in….[How] are you going to plug people into radical political movements?
If I try and think about what it would mean to win, I just can’t, it’s not possible for my brain to think about that and so anything that comes short of having won is then a failure.
