{"id":861,"date":"2018-08-09T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T06:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=861"},"modified":"2019-05-06T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T07:59:32","slug":"long-term-rules-for-activists-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Long Term Rules For Activists \u2013 Part One."},"content":{"rendered":"

A Question for activists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The question which I keep asking, is how do we keep going with little or no support? <\/b><\/p>\n

There is no easy answer to this, as achieving social change is a long term slog. <\/b><\/p>\n

Yet there are some ways of thinking, and acting , which do help to sustain ones activism.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Keep focussed on those issues which very few people are working on, and which you have some special concerns or knowledge about.<\/b><\/p>\n

2. Keep remembering that social change will only come by a day by week by month by year by decade, by decades, by century commitment to making it happen.<\/b><\/p>\n

3. There is no such thing as a protest season, so just think in terms of what needs doing right now.<\/b><\/p>\n

4. Match up your political actions and life style. <\/b><\/p>\n

There is a lot of good information to be found about boycotts, and ecological lifestyle issues in the Ethical Consumer magazine<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

5. Be willing to work with people who do not share ones political views, but are concerned with some of the same single issues. <\/b><\/p>\n

It might mean you get your radical views seen in action by people who are never going to come in contact with them any other way.<\/b><\/p>\n

This is something which I keep doing as a part of my Liverpool Pedestrian campaigning.<\/b><\/p>\n

6. Don’t fall for the ‘one last push’ \/ ‘we need more people to make an even larger march \/ demonstration’ way of thinking. <\/b><\/p>\n

This only results in burn-out or disillusionment.<\/b><\/p>\n

And Last of All. <\/b><\/p>\n

Just go on those small scale pickets or demonstration where a few people will make a big difference.<\/b><\/p>\n

As to meetings.<\/b><\/p>\n

My rule of thumb is that they are only worth while going to if they are planning ones, or where you are going to increase your knowledge base. <\/b><\/p>\n

Though sometimes it is worth while going to them in order to do some networking. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Question for activists. The question which I keep asking, is how do we keep going with little or no support? There is no easy answer to this, as achieving social change is a long term slog. Yet there are some ways of thinking, and acting , which do help to sustain ones activism. 1. … Continue reading Long Term Rules For Activists \u2013 Part One.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,6,48,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}