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DO SOMETHING
May. 21st, 2019 12:01 pmvia http://bit.ly/2EhkOy3
Here’s a neat link I saw on Twitter, about activism in general and a counterpoint to despair:
(direct link) Transcription: A tweet by Twitter user Prisonculture, a prominent prison abolition and Black history activist and community organizer, saying “DO SOMETHING is not good advice and it won’t yield good results. WHAT exactly do you want people to do? How are you going to help them do it? Are you providing information, suggestions, ideas, a pathway?”
Response by Twitter user elguante: “We made a zine about this general idea, focusing on specific, concrete things people (especially people without a ton of activist experience) can do to plug in:”
embedded link, copied in full: https://www.guante.info/2016/12/for-people-who-want-to-do-something-but.html
Here’s a neat link I saw on Twitter, about activism in general and a counterpoint to despair:
(direct link) Transcription: A tweet by Twitter user Prisonculture, a prominent prison abolition and Black history activist and community organizer, saying “DO SOMETHING is not good advice and it won’t yield good results. WHAT exactly do you want people to do? How are you going to help them do it? Are you providing information, suggestions, ideas, a pathway?”
Response by Twitter user elguante: “We made a zine about this general idea, focusing on specific, concrete things people (especially people without a ton of activist experience) can do to plug in:”
embedded link, copied in full: https://www.guante.info/2016/12/for-people-who-want-to-do-something-but.html
