Thursday January 23, 2025; 5:45 PM EST
- One of these categories is called Tools, but all of these essential elements of activism that hopes to have a chance for success might need new tools or upgrades of tools we already use.#
- Knowledge#
- Build and locate, share, preserve, deliberate with others#
- Attitudes#
- Curiosity, persistence, courage, moral fiber, openness, respect for necessary partnerships and traditions and institutions, willingness to deliberate with others#
- Skills#
- Knowledge skills, introspection about personal and group traits, good with tools, able to stretch and learn, partnership skills, able to be strategic about institutions, communication skills, persuasion, focus#
- Tools#
- Research, solidarity tools, communication tools, institutional and inter-group tools and methods#
- Partnerships#
- Know the necessary value of affiliations, how to build and maintain partnerships, how to amplify and extend the reach of voices through wider circles of partnerships#
- Institutions#
- Locate the healthiest institutions and work there, protect them, challenge the hollowed-out or calcified or captured institutions#
- Reach#
- Essential element of communication that must always be a goal or otherwise there is no reason for opponents to fear your activism#
- Staying power#
- Essential element of activism that must always be there or otherwise there is no reason for opponents to fear your activism#
- Without some strength in each of these eight categories, activism has not much chance of success. Historical episodes back up this point.#