Activist Anger: Is Your Aim True? | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Feb. 5, 2015

“Without community, there is no liberation. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”

- Audre Lorde

What motivates any human -- especially one living in relative privilege -- to embrace the unpopular and challenging path of activism? Of course, there are many particular/specific reasons but I’ll posit that the underlying emotion is most often anger.

Rage, vexation, displeasure, irritation, indignation, fury, wrath, ire, outrage -- call it what you wish but those first activist steps usually happen because something really pissed you off. It might be oppression you personally experience; it might come from bearing witness to the suffering of others (of any species); or maybe your anger arises in defense of the entire ecosystem.

The next step usually involves finding like-minded souls…

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