Top 10 Activist Errors

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picking men, women, and children to murder on Tuesdays, you’d see protests.

corporatist warmonger.

eliminated. Our job is to demand that. A small reduction is a first step toward our goal.

working however long it takes and however few help out. Self-flagellation won’t help. The money is against you and money is powerful. It’s not your fault you haven’t saved the world, but it might be thanks to you that your grandchildren save it.

issue whose views and actions you deeply oppose on other issues.

military industrial complex. But if the earth dies, so will you. There are local and hyper-local angles that contribute to the greater cause. Cities and states can change nations. But individual action alone is not enough. Even small group action aimed too near is not enough. If everybody with solar panels on their roofs had put half the money into a movement to create public solar arrays, we’d have them.

can and should be ended. Facts are not enough, but they are one of the main things the corporate media deprives us of, and one of the key components of activism. They do nothing to help us see another’s point of view if we’re unwilling to look. They do nothing to alleviate high levels of fear. But it would be a mistake for us to become inversions of Edward Bernays working to manipulate people in a kinder, gentler manner.

spokespeople. What we lack is microphones.

not going to go away on its own. It is not even going away with our help. But it could go away if we really get our act together.