by Katie Renz

Mother Jones

03/22/05

Interview with "direct-action organizer" David Solnit: "Part of the challenge for us is to learn from past social movements. A lot of the ideas I learned came from the civil rights movement and the farm workers movement. But they're not in people's heads. It's an amnesia of our own history. We have to learn how to organize, and create models that are replicable and not just dependent on non-profits and professionals. On the other hand, there's a quandary about how the most overworked people on planet Earth find the time to organize ourselves. But, if you start to look around, there are people organizing themselves around all of our basic needs and organizing positive alternatives...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/03/david_solnit.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp