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Spring-ing into action? Yeah, good luck with that.
Finally, I am learning (I think). I am not, (wife-be-happy) going to dance to the Masochism Tango. There was a time I might have enthusiastically attended this, in Manchester on Saturday May 11th. No more. Why? Well, here’s the comment … Continue reading
The whines on the bus go round and round, round and round…
The left “extra-parliamentary left” is utterly hooked on proclaiming their own moral superiority, their victim status, on doling out little pats on the back to each other at miserabilist meetings/rallies. A shopping list of grievances. The grievances are all real … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence
Tagged movement-building, social capital, social movements
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Whatever happened to the people who gave a damn?
As Gil Scott Heron sang here. Or did that just apply to not dying in the jungles of Vietnam… Two scenes from films spring to mind Warren Beatty as “Bulworth” lamenting whatever happened to Huey Newton etc etc and Halle … Continue reading
“Deconstructing myths” and “what were you thinking?”
Hello to new subscriber Jeff Nguyen, whose blog “Deconstructing Myths: Social Justice is built one idea at a time” will be of great interest to DT readers. The latest post on it looks at the Mali events and the “Idle … Continue reading
“Only Connect”: Red Pepper on Syriza, feminism and movements. (But oh, the turgidity.)
There are two pieces in the latest worthy Red Pepper (1) worthy of note (so far – I’ve not finished it). They are both book reviews. “Syriza in Greece has been the most successful in mobilising popular and electoral support … Continue reading
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Tagged Lynne Segal, meetings, movement-building, Red Pepper, social movements
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Coasting and chilling
I am coasting. I have the curse of enough talent and energy to get through challenges on the seat of my pants (most of the time). I prepare for some of those challenges, and do well often/sometimes. But then I … Continue reading
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“If a group can’t handle legitimate dissent, it’s not a group I want to be part of”
Groucho Marx? No, some guy who makes very cool videos. See his youtube channel here – one of the quotes in the logo is cool – “People who don’t want you to think are never your friends.” This one below … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism
Tagged cognitive limitations, group dynamics, social movements
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And we can’t help falling in love with… us. #smugosphere
From “Devoke the Apocalypse“ “At Liberty Square we had created a feeling of utopianism. Utopianism as a feeling is hardly about the future; it is something that is felt—often overwhelmingly so—here and now. At Occupy I began to wonder whether … Continue reading
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Climate of Despair: The past, present and future of the UK climate “movement”
I wrote this for the last issue of a (frankly unlamented) magazine called “Shift.” They’ve put it on their website, with no link to the main page, and no comments box. Which tells you what they think of it, or … Continue reading
