Letters to a Young Activist
Todd Gitlin
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0465033067
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK
The End of Apartheid: Diary of a Revolution
The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond
Your riod. who criticism won't is attention getting, pe- change them. They promote the actions that you want them because you wish it. Their creativity is be held accountable for the impression to will not promote just meager. So you'll left by the whole —the ensemble that comes to be considered "the event" action, the official response, the images broadcast. Factually, you share responsibility with the other Practically, you'll Two be left players. holding the bag.
serviceable emotional climate for reform. So here as in other respects, the open-ended operations of a terrorist army committed to attacks on Americans, not to mention an open-ended war on terrorists or tyrants like Sadaam Hussein, would widen the breach between Americans and the rest of the world. However cosmopolitan, you are not exempt from the circumstances of your society, and ought to acknowledge that terrorists are in the distinction-denying business, do not inspect their
the very moment when we were becoming a national political force, the legitimate power urmerved us. very thought of Leadership was supposed to rotate (except in organizations run by people of color, where authoritarianism was excused). Power was supposed to be "local" and "community-based," horizontal, not vertical. Later, feminists leaders automatically too discovered that natural met with rancor, resentment and barely disguised envy. Talent often was questioned, viewed as a
full at of interested in the possibil- victims descended from workers and others from the Amer- Ku Klux Klan, civil rights some were Mexican busboys and others, Muslims. They did not canvass 354 firefighters for their views of American bases Had they known that one young man, Mark Bingham, who apparently helped bring down the in Saudi Arabia. second hijacked jet headed for Washington, was gay, they probably would have agreed with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson that he was one
plutocracy, who risk nothing, whatever the fortunes and mis- fortunes of their companies, and whose idea of sacrifice is that somebody low wages. We in a blue collar should perform it for should be questioning whether the most complete expression of citizenship and patriotic duty 163 is Todd Gitlin to head for the mall or Disney World, as Bush advised after ing that America president says we September is rightly at are, just And we should be 1 1 We . George W.