Protests and Power (Idle Words)

Maciej ? was in Hong Kong for the recent protests and he reflects that experience with the current American protests.

Instead of approaching the upcoming election as the culminating event in a four-year project to reclaim democracy, we’re treating it as more political weather, keeping a nervous eye on the forecasts, hunkering down, and hoping for the best.

I read this as many of us being politically about flash but not substance. Where are the organizations to do the day-to-day work to affect real change.