How effective are our actions?
How do we know that our activism actually produces good outcomes?
This article, by my colleague and friend, is excellent advice on how to improve the outcome of our actions.
FIVE WAYS TO MAKE YOUR ACTIVISM MORE STRATEGIC
By Eileen Flanagan
First published in GRID Magazine, March, 2015.
Thirteen years ago, at an anti-war rally where a small group of protestors gave speeches to each other in a park, my precocious five-year-old looked up at me and said, “Mom, this is not going to change George Bush’s mind. Can we go get ice cream?”
Of course, she was right, though at the time I didn’t know what was missing from all those rallies and marches I’d attended over the years. It was only through my involvement with Earth Quaker Action Team—a group founded five years ago that uses nonviolent direct action to work for a just and sustainable economy—that I learned the following keys to effective activism.
How do we know that our activism actually produces good outcomes?
This article, by my colleague and friend, is excellent advice on how to improve the outcome of our actions.
FIVE WAYS TO MAKE YOUR ACTIVISM MORE STRATEGIC
By Eileen Flanagan
First published in GRID Magazine, March, 2015.
Thirteen years ago, at an anti-war rally where a small group of protestors gave speeches to each other in a park, my precocious five-year-old looked up at me and said, “Mom, this is not going to change George Bush’s mind. Can we go get ice cream?”
Of course, she was right, though at the time I didn’t know what was missing from all those rallies and marches I’d attended over the years. It was only through my involvement with Earth Quaker Action Team—a group founded five years ago that uses nonviolent direct action to work for a just and sustainable economy—that I learned the following keys to effective activism.
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