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Why I Can’t Stand Disney
I can’t stand Disney. At one time, I had difficulty articulating why. But it came together when I read Jennifer Hochschild making this point a while ago.
The theme of most Walt Disney movies boils down to the lyric in Pinocchio: “When you wish upon a star, doesn’t matter who you are, your dreams come true.”
Nonsense of course. It does matter who you are, not because people get what they deserve, but because things are not fair. And wishing is worthless, fighting for it is what matters – fighting with others.
When we organize, our dreams have a chance of coming true.
Alinsky on Communication
Communication with others takes place when they understanding what you’re trying to get across to them. If they don’t understand, then you are not communicating regardless of words, pictures or anything else. People only understand things in terms of their experience, which means that you must get within their experience. Further, communication is a two-way process. If you try to get your ideas across to others without paying attention to what they have to say to you, you can forget about the whole thing.
Saul Alinsky, Rules of Radicals
How do you break through inertia?
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Written by David Kaib
April 1, 2015 at 5:44 pm
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Tagged with Boundaries of the possible, contestation, Marshall Ganz, narrative, organizing