Category Archives: Goals

This is an Uprising – Mark and Paul Engler

Great book. Highly recommend for anyone doing any kind of social justice work. Especially people trying to build up a movement.

1/4/17

Uprising can be a craft, and that this craft can change our world. Those who practice it tell us that outbreaks of widespread disruption, although commonly misunderstood, are neither flukes nor fleeting failures.

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Wobblies & Zapatistas – Staughton Lynd

10/19/15

I was pretty disappointed in this book and didn’t finish it. The introduction and first few chapters did contain some interesting ideas:

We need Marxism to understand the structure of society and anarchism to prefigure or anticipate a new society
This is Zapatista education not Freirean education.

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Rolling Thunder 12 – CrimethInc

10/15/15

What they mean when they say peace
- Real peace cannot be imposed; it can only emerge as a consequence of the resolution of conflict. hence the classic chant: no justice, no peace.
- That means you can’t have rich people and poor people without police to impose that unequal relation to resources.

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Rolling Thunder 11 – CrimethInc

10/12/15

After the crest
- If we presume the goal of any tactic is always to maintain the momentum of a particular movement, we will never be able to do more that react quixotically against the inexorable passing of time. Rather than struggling to stave off dissolution, we should act with an eye to the future.

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The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Wonderful short novel about achieving your goals.… Read the rest