Moving past guilt
…it should be about working towards a real vision that’s clearly articulated and you can measure your progress towards that rather than just measuring your progress in terms of how good you feel about yourself.
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Denigrating youth
We have our differences but we can have political unity and we can have discussion about tactics but…[it doesn’t] because [some people] have a denigrating concept of youth.
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Coming to terms with privilege
We need to know our privileges, our intellectual, social, economic privileges and how they actually intersect with other people.
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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.
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Hope in the dark
There’s always going to be that kernel of good possibilities and I think it’s going to be a lot harder for rich people to keep in this bubble that we’re in right now which is not having to realize the incredible poverty and the incredible suffering going on in the rest of the world.
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Climate crisis and fascism
I fear that those who have access right now will increasingly follow a trend…towards fascism
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Failures of imagination
I think that the lack of strategic function of doing that, running back into a mass protest after you’ve smashed some stuff…it shows a lack of imagination.