#Minneapolis shows us why we should #organize at work
“ My first protest as an adult was part of the wave of anti-Iraq War protests across the US in 2003. I was part of a crowd of over 100,000. It felt good to know there were so many of us, that I wasn’t alone in my anger with what my government was doing. “
“One hard reality about organizing: you’re going to fail a lot. You’ll lose more often than you win.” - Labor Notes: Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Spadework - On political organizing
- Alyssa Battistoni
Issue 34 : Head Case -Spring 2019
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/politics/spadework/
Your job as an organizer was to find out what it was that people wanted to be different in their lives, and then to persuade people that it mattered whether they decided to do something about it. This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t.
Peter Riley