Friendly reminder to our campaign activators: Don’t copy the tactics of political campaigns. They’re too often focused on short-term wins over long-term relationship building, as evidenced by the enormous amount of text and social media spam.
In democracy, we never know if our side is going to win–there is never a certainty of outcomes. All we can promise is a certainty of process. In an authoritarian regime, you have certainty of outcomes, but uncertainty over process. If you want certainty of outcome, go to Saudi-occupied Arabia.
We refuse to let Big Ag make us the poor, abused, disinherited–the trampled leavings of this county.
The very fact that people think we can’t solve the groundwater crisis gives us the imperative to try to solve it. We can’t do anything (they tell us)—that’s why we should do everything.
In very heated situations, one strategy Big Ag could employ is not to oppose our campaign, but to do everything it can to muddy the issue in order to confuse folk, thereby keeping them out of our campaign.
Helping a human being come to their own conclusion without ever giving them your opinion is the difference between activating and mobilizing.
Now get yourself a song to sing and sing it ’til you’re done Yeah, sing it hard and sing it well Send the water barons straight to hell The greedy thieves who came around And ate the flesh of everything they found Whose crimes have gone unpunished—how? Who walk the streets as free men now …
Activating people in Cochise County is NOT about getting people to agree with radical ideas.
