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Testimonials
Mike Miller, Organise Training Centre
Organising does two central things to rectify the problem of power imbalance. It builds a permanent base of people power so that dominant financial and institutional power can be challenged and held accountable to values of greater social, environmental and economic justice. And it transforms individuals and communities, making them mutually respectful co-creators of public life, rather than passive objects of decisions made by others.
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2014-03-30T08:16:08+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/mike-miller-organise-training-centre/
Michael Albert, Zmag
Changing society isn't a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity - not just a small affinity group but far more widely - is a big part of this agenda.
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2014-03-30T09:05:53+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/michael-albert-zmag/
Karl Marx
The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.
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2014-03-30T08:16:56+11:00
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Michael Albert, ‘The trajectory of change’
Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society's defining relations.
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2014-03-30T09:07:42+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/michael-albert-the-trajectory-of-change/
Reverend Robert Linthicum, World Vision International
Community organising is that process by which the people organise themselves to take charge of their situation and develop a sense of being a community together. It is a particularly effective tool for the poor and the powerless as they determine for themselves the actions they will take to deal with the essential forces that are destroying their community and consequently causing them to be powerless.
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2014-03-30T08:21:08+11:00
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