If you have no plan and no hope, why do you want to do anything about climate change? Or maybe you don’t? I can’t tell.

Ok, great. Have a nice day.

Maybe because I’m talking about organizing, not electoral politics. Organizing is how you build power to put pressure on decision makers, whether they are in elected or corporate positions of power.

ETA but yes, you need a plan. Organizing gets you a say in what decisions are made.

Wow, you started a little fire here, haha.

I'm here because I'm very interested in this issue as well, and interested in getting involved. I just moved here a few months ago. In Seattle I was involved in housing justice work - which, there, was closely aligned with climate justice work.

Take a look at the early labor movement in the US. Folks didn't just protest, they organized together, they stood in solidarity with each other, and when the bosses wouldn't negotiate they wielded their power by withholding their labor.

Anger by itself does nothing. You need strategy, persistence, and people who have enough hope to believe that change is possible.

You don't win by having the best arguments, nor "yelling and screaming." You win through organizing: building power. If you have enough people willing to go to the mat on an issue, you can shut. shit. down.

In a nutshell, "building a movement" = "building power," just to be clear. If you don't have money power, organizing is the way to build people power.

It's good to have science behind you. Evidence based claims are crucial. But you don't win by having the best ideas. (Hello, have you seen US politics over the last 50 years??) You win by building a movement, i.e. through organizing.

Ignore it.

Aww, how awesome! Great job of reconnecting the phone with its human. :)

I think it's great! It's a lovely color.

It's beautiful!

Sounds charming.

Goosebumps

Oh my god. How awful.

Aaaaallll the bridges <3

I still can’t get past the idea of putting French fries on a wet meat sandwich.

Frustrating

This area needs that and other kinds of automated enforcement. Red light cameras, for starters, backed by high enough fines to discourage people from gunning it to "make" a light they should know will turn red long before they get there anyway.