Activist Equinox

[Hoser McRhizzy]

Good reading, cram.  Thanks for posting this!

more stuff to think about - on decades and time from Utah Phillips : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyhjhtS1KA&feature=related

"That whole idea of decade packaging, things don't happen that way...
... that packaging of time is a journalistic contrivance they use to trivialise and dismiss important events and important ideas"

When all you hear are the filtered summaries through the news or second-hand reports, you only see how diffused the movement is, how incoherent it is, how small it is, how apparently insane some of the protestors are.

Yes!  And when official history is made up of things like news summaries, you only see how precise The Movement was, the One Thing that sparked it all, the One Point people wanted to make, the Iconic Image and how (of course) it ended.  Women's Lib happened with a burning bra and some academic women.  The Anti-War movement happened when some middle class white woman dressed funny and put a daisy down a gun once upon a time.  Civil Rights was about black people and buses.  Turning histories into stories makes tidy ends of imaginary single-string events, when it's all ongoing and much, much messier.  And much more interesting.