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Beyond Resistance: Making better world in the here and now

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 7:35am

The essay below is both parts of the essay that was published in two parts in rabble.ca

“Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

I have spent the last year mostly away from the mad activism that has characterized much of my adult life. After the G20 and its aftermath, I decided I needed a break. It was finally time to write the memoir that I had wanted to write for several years. So I decided to take three months totally off from activism. It turned out I needed more time. With some exceptions, I have stepped back from organizing, blogging and most speaking. You may be surprised that during that time, when Rob Ford was elected mayor of Toronto and Stephen Harper, prime minister, I have become more hopeful about possibility of actually making the world a better place.

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