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     * I'm reminded of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWvVdjmBhHc|the Battle of Blair Mountain]]; even though it ended in defeat for the union, it is of course in the interests of the powerful to keep workers from learning that armed uprising against the bosses is an option     * I'm reminded of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWvVdjmBhHc|the Battle of Blair Mountain]]; even though it ended in defeat for the union, it is of course in the interests of the powerful to keep workers from learning that armed uprising against the bosses is an option
   * p. 85: "If you are unsure where to begin, we recommend you begin with the words or ideas that have already had an impact on you. As an exercise, pick out a quotation that has had a deep impact on your politics. Write it down. Now let's elaborate upon its context. What injustice was being challenged? What did the speaker want most immediately? Was the quote part of a statement to the press, a line from a speech or book, or a comment to a friend? Was it in a letter from a jailhouse? Who was president of the United States when these words were spoken? What was the economy like? Who might have disagreed with this quote at the time it was spoken, both within and outside of social movements? If the quote is from a book, have you read it? If not, is it possible these words are calling you on a journey?"   * p. 85: "If you are unsure where to begin, we recommend you begin with the words or ideas that have already had an impact on you. As an exercise, pick out a quotation that has had a deep impact on your politics. Write it down. Now let's elaborate upon its context. What injustice was being challenged? What did the speaker want most immediately? Was the quote part of a statement to the press, a line from a speech or book, or a comment to a friend? Was it in a letter from a jailhouse? Who was president of the United States when these words were spoken? What was the economy like? Who might have disagreed with this quote at the time it was spoken, both within and outside of social movements? If the quote is from a book, have you read it? If not, is it possible these words are calling you on a journey?"
-  * pp. 86--87 on extractive reading and rehearsal vs. recital+  * <wrap hi>pp. 86--87 on extractive reading and rehearsal vs. recital</wrap>
   * most of the reading in this list has been extractive; how can I change that?    * most of the reading in this list has been extractive; how can I change that? 
   * look into: https://www.lucyparsonslabs.com/   * look into: https://www.lucyparsonslabs.com/
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 ==== Don't Pedestal Organizers ==== ==== Don't Pedestal Organizers ====
 +  * Hayes & Kaba connect pedestaling of organizers with our culture of individualism, arguing that the powerful encourage such pedestaling to reinforce that culture; <wrap hi>I would argue that it also serves to legitimize authoritarian and hierarchical sentiments: if a movement can be reduced to the orchestrations of a few leaders, then it reinforces the idea that we are all meant to be followers</wrap>
 +  * reminder: a person's politics can occur in any mix, and those politics need not be congruous with their actions
 +  * I was waiting for the word "parasocial" to appear
 +  * p. 131: "If we looked into someone's previous work, writing, or practices, we might discover that they have long held some positions that we disagree with or that their organizing style may not align with our own. This does not mean that we cannot praise someone's work without running a background check or familiarizing ourselves with their entire body of work. __It does mean that we should be specific about what we admire: the campaigns they have co-organized, their leadership style, their written work, or even specific words they have shared__, rather than reducing them as people to emblems of good politics whose unknown words, actions, and beliefs have been overwritten with idealization."
 +  * p. 131: "Good organizers do not want 'fans'. They want committed and thoughtful co-strugglers. An organizer who wants your allegiance rather than your solidarity and co-investment in struggle is not someone whose leadership you should trust."
 +  * individual "success" is not movement success
 +  * agh, the whitewashing of MLK
 +  * inclusion is a compromise, not a solution; those included are expected to conform to the norms of the institutions that have deigned to include them
 +    * consider the superficial "diversity" of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VtjZHC5Qyk|GamerGate]]: "...the marginalized are unwelcome unless they obliterate themselves on the altar of the 'normal'."; while a different situation --- actually, is it that different?
 +  * call back to Klemp's rejection of the Grand Vermeil Medal (pp. 122--123)
 +  * when criticism comes from people with no connection to the work, check in with yourself and comrades about whether that criticism merits consideration; always question and challenge your own positions
 +  * p. 136: "People who are understandably impatient for large-scale change often want to believe that there's a shortcut: that one group, movement, or demographic is the truth and the way and that merely cheering on that contingent will spur a revolution...Attaching oneself to such fantasies may feel like solidarity to some, but in reality it is dehumanizing, nonstrategic, and an abdication of one's responsibility to forge struggle."
 +  * if credited for a major development, tell the larger story of the movement instead, and invite others to join
 +  * quoting Walia (p. 143): "our political opponents have a hard time accepting that our movements are nonhierarchical and decentralized and really believe that targeting one person can challenge the legitimacy of an entire movement."
 +  * look into: the Surveillance Self-Defense Project
 +  * neat, they cited "Carol's Journey" (Zadrozny) and Zuboff's //The Age of Surveillance Capitalism//
 +  * look into: the Hemisphere Project
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 +==== Hope and Grief Can Coexist ====
 +  * of course J comes to mind here: his absence continues to ache, but I'll never stop hoping for his return
 +  * the capitalist order will rely on further public acceptance of mass death as inevitable in order to maintain itself
 +    * see again [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yts2F44RqFw|I Hate Mondays]]
 +  * but grief is an expression of love, and that order is unprepared to address a mass movement of grief-informed mutual aid
 +  * p. 153: "Many of our ancestors experienced the end of the worlds they had known...We must learn from their histories and traditions as we face an uncertain future."
 +  * reminder that the Right is not united by a shared vision of a better future but by a dogged adherence to extant hierarchies
 +  * look into: "The Walls of the Tank: On Palestinian Resistance" (Malm)
 +  * look into: "The Dignity and Hope Manifesto" (anonymous)
 +  * look into: //The Parable of the Sower// (Butler)
 +  * create spaces for processing grief and building hope
 +  * 
  
  
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