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Rebecca Solnit On How Change Happens
This essay is cool because it has me really considering what’s possible and how a lot of time we can’t see outcomes. Change is not linear. Impacts are not always intended.
http://rebeccasolnit.net/essay/standing-rock-inspired-ocasio-cortez-to-run/
Three pieces to balance in seeking change
Vision, Action, Mourning
Action: “What is the adjacent possible?”
Mourning: “Am I mourning the gap between what I want and what is possible? [...] Mourning is generative, it is regenerative, it creates its fuel.”
“What takes up space is grief that isn’t space. [...] The resistance to mourning is what holds us up, not the grief itself. [...] Mourning is a composting process, it frees up and generates energy. It looks a lot like crying. It’s not a conceptual activity, it’s letting yourself be washed over by the state of the world.”
via Miki Kashtan
Prop. 8 backlash has led the Latter Day Saints to soften their treatment of LGBT church members.
The small, institutional shifts toward change
I'm consistently moved and inspired by the courage of the DREAMers.
AND a cogent summary of the change process:
Courage begets more courage. One sacrifice inspires another.
As for Obama’s electoral pandering: the fact that a politician decides that it is expedient to cave to your demands is no indictment of social movement efforts. Quite the contrary. The point of activism is to create the conditions so that, when politicians decide to pander, they pander in the right way. That is to say: when politicians decide that they can no longer ignore pressure from their constituents and need to act, they act by making a concession to legitimate popular needs.
In this case, instead of deciding it was advantageous to cave to anti-immigrant racists, Obama looked for a way to please a mobilized and dissatisfied Latino base. We have the DREAMers to thank for that.
(Via Huffington Post)
This wasn't what I expected ... in the best of ways. On the Commons identifies components of commons-building, highlighting -- for me -- the different ways people contribute to change efforts
A new role for Occupy: sharing knowledge to support other protests?
“faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Where We’re Headed « The Story of Stuff Project
