"To put it bluntly, liberalism will be saved by ordinary people choosing over and over again to fully embed themselves in the slow, unglamorous machinery of living together in community. That’s the work we should embrace."
The only way is through. You have to do the work now that was t getting done, which is why we're here now.
Another option is to join with others taking collective action. Systemic issues require systemic/organized responses - whether it is being part of some type of community organizing group, an advocacy group or taking direct action. Doing it alone can have its limits. When you pull back the information in different cities there are a lot of networks that are organizing to respond in different ways. Find your local group. It's hard because those options take time and capacity and there are immediate threats. Showing Up For Racial Justice local groups do this and I know there are many other groups.
Yes, for sure! This is very much what I have in mind when I write about “ordinary people choosing over and over again to fully embed themselves in the slow, unglamorous machinery of living together in community.” I’m hoping to put together some more concrete ideas along these lines in a post for next week.
The longer answer is that I started writing a bunch of specific things but that made this post way too long so I dropped those ideas into a new post that will be published early next week.
"To put it bluntly, liberalism will be saved by ordinary people choosing over and over again to fully embed themselves in the slow, unglamorous machinery of living together in community. That’s the work we should embrace."
The only way is through. You have to do the work now that was t getting done, which is why we're here now.
Another option is to join with others taking collective action. Systemic issues require systemic/organized responses - whether it is being part of some type of community organizing group, an advocacy group or taking direct action. Doing it alone can have its limits. When you pull back the information in different cities there are a lot of networks that are organizing to respond in different ways. Find your local group. It's hard because those options take time and capacity and there are immediate threats. Showing Up For Racial Justice local groups do this and I know there are many other groups.
Yes, for sure! This is very much what I have in mind when I write about “ordinary people choosing over and over again to fully embed themselves in the slow, unglamorous machinery of living together in community.” I’m hoping to put together some more concrete ideas along these lines in a post for next week.
Can you just give us three bullet points so we know exactly what to do?
The short answer is yes.
The longer answer is that I started writing a bunch of specific things but that made this post way too long so I dropped those ideas into a new post that will be published early next week.