From: JessEcoh-AT-cs.com
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:59:40 EDT
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Is there anyone on this list who isn't a current or aspir...


In a message dated 9/30/03 3:35:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
garethgordon-AT-yahoo.com writes: 
> By the way,
> Could I just turn this question around a little, and ask if there are any 
> academics on this list who match their "paperwork" (as it were) with activism?

i try to do so.  i'm working with a local greens chapter which i helped form 
out here in northwest indiana.  it's a good group, and it's interesting to 
watch/participate as it develops, as people learn how to organize without 
bureaucracy and hierarchy, how to do DIY media stuff, how to formulate critiques of 
economic and social ills . . . 

but i'm inexperienced and somewhat ineffectual as an activist, i'm afraid.  i 
feel like my best "activism" is often what i do _in_ the classroom, even with 
that "captive audience." (lately, i'm working on encouraging my students to 
believe more in their own cognitive, imaginative, and critical capabilities -- 
they can be so timid, so self-doubting and self-effacing . . .)


       --jesse.


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