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Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

I learned a lot from this interview with Aru Shiney-Ajay—executive director of the Sunrise Movement, and a Minneapolis resident-organizer—and I’m still thinking about this point on skepticism, not fear, being the main barrier to activating people in the US.

https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minneapolis-is-going-on-offense

Screenshot of a paragraph reads, “I don’t think the main barrier in the US is fear. It’s skepticism. Most people don’t believe in our ability to change things. So one of the most important things for organizers right now is to pick campaigns that are ambitious, tangible, and winnable — wins that aren’t so small they feel meaningless but are still actually achievable. Because one of the biggest things we need to prove to ordinary people right now is that we really do have power over how the government operates, and over what happens in our society.”
Screenshot of a paragraph reads, “I don’t think the main barrier in the US is fear. It’s skepticism. Most people don’t believe in our ability to change things. So one of the most important things for organizers right now is to pick campaigns that are ambitious, tangible, and winnable — wins that aren’t so small they feel meaningless but are still actually achievable. Because one of the biggest things we need to prove to ordinary people right now is that we really do have power over how the government operates, and over what happens in our society.”
Screenshot of a paragraph reads, “I don’t think the main barrier in the US is fear. It’s skepticism. Most people don’t believe in our ability to change things. So one of the most important things for organizers right now is to pick campaigns that are ambitious, tangible, and winnable — wins that aren’t so small they feel meaningless but are still actually achievable. Because one of the biggest things we need to prove to ordinary people right now is that we really do have power over how the government operates, and over what happens in our society.”

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