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The Activist’s Handbook: 1000 Ways to Politically and Socially Activate Your Life
It is time for people to become more active politically, socially and culturally. It is not enough to spend your entire life waiting to be entertained by the political rhetoric.
These are 1000 ways in which you can politically and socially activate your life:
The next time you’re with family or friends, discuss a particular cause, instead of letting the conversation drift to celebrity gossip.
Be mindful of the fact that the news channels synthesize events in ways which make the individual feel as if activism is hopeless.
Try to make friends that are politically involved, instead of maintaining the same old school friends.
Stay focused on one particular cause, it’s fine to take up many causes, but always recognize your main cause.
Call a big bank that was bailed out in 2008 by the people and ask them if they would be willing to bail out poor families.
Go to a protest, do not let the stigma propagated by the mass media keep you away from protests.
When your friends talk to you about new consumer products, change the topic to political causes instead.
If you’re going to a protest, try to bring as many of your friends as you can.
When friends say that protestors are ‘crazy’, explain to them exhilarating feeling of being part of a large politically conscious group.
Being an activist requires sacrifice, you will lose many brainwashed friends along the way, but who needs them anyway!
Write an open letter to the CEO of a certain company that you dislike and publish the letter online.
Write an anonymous letter to anyone who abuses their power, boss, CEO, professor, manager etc.
When people use the word consumer to describe human beings, correct them and tell them that human beings are more than consumers.
Organize meetings where you can discuss political matters with others who share the same interest.
Always persuade people, avoid antagonizing them or their social/corporate defense mechanisms will kick in.
Instead of going to watch a mind numbing Hollywood film, look up protests in your area and go to one.
Talking to people is the most effective way of short-circuiting the mass media’s control over people’s minds.
Learn from the experiences of others, ask a homeless person how and why they became homeless.
Volunteer, volunteer, volunteer! Volunteering teaches you that human actions do not have to always be about financial rewards.
Instead of going to a nightclub or a party to meet other people, go to a protest.
Parents will always question political activism, do not let it bother you.
Try seeing how long you can go without purchasing anything barring food of course, to test your consumerist drive.
Do not get ahead of yourself with thoughts of changing the world, change your life first and the lives of those around you.
Avoid feelings of apathy that follow political disappointments, instead, set a new goal and work on it.
Organize a group of four or five people and help each other go to protests.
Do not antagonize the police, that’s counterintuitive, and it allows the capitalist force to activate its violent drive.
Ask a police officer if he or she are part of the upper class, the ruling elites.
Ask a police officer why they protect the bankers and capitalists which keep all of our children in debt.
Write an open letter to a billionaire asking them why they love money to the point of forgetting about starving human beings.
Find a political magazine or blog and write for them.
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2013-02-20 13:20:10
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