Kill the Career Activist in Your Head - Anna P
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“You know, smaller organizations have distributed more petition books.” “It’s not hard. It’s just signatures.” “I don’t get it. Why can’t you just do it?”
These are direct quotes that stuck with me after an “organizing conversation” I had with a lifelong activist from Cleveland. This meeting was the first and last in-person conversation we ever had. She is someone I respected and wanted to activate in our quickly growing DSA chapter. She has decades of labor organizing experience while I am new to it. We are both activists. We had met a couple of times at the picket line, but never long enough to exchange ideas. She emailed me and requested to get coffee and talk about a specific electoral-labor campaign she was working on at the time. I…
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