Ten Immodest Commandments: Lessons From a Fumbling-and-Bungling Lifetime of Activism

[PETRUS]

A friend in Canada recently asked me if the Sixties’ protests had any important lessons to pass on to the Occupy movement.

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First, the categorical imperative is to organize or rather to facilitate other peoples’ self-organization. Catalyst is good, but organization is better.

Second, leadership must be temporary and subject to recall. The job of a good organizer, as it was often said in the civil rights movement, is to organize herself out of a job, not to become indispensable.

http://www.truth-out.org/ten-immodest-commandments-lessons-fumbling-and-bungling-lifetime-activism/1321797658

More at the link.

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(Some things in there I'd criticize, but worth a look.)