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This article linked in the Daily Kos Abbreviated Pundit Roundup this morning caught my eye:
Ella Baker taught us how we ought to do our movement work: take time to be inclusive, be active listeners, walk the thorny and sometimes circuitous path of participatory democracy, mutual respect and genuine solidarity; and build campaigns from the bottom up not the top down. Today's progressives should take these lessons to heart, if they want to succeed in creating the social change our world desperately needs.
I know that I struggle to think of ways to gather all the groups that would benefit so greatly from progressive causes and values together, so that we can move forward. Together we are the majority of our country, and I suspect of our state as well, although we surely need some consciousness-raising around here. The new legislature seems to be doing a pretty good job of consciousness-raising right now, but we need to make sure that enough people actually know what is happening and who is doing it.
Over and over I have found that we start out with grassroots drive and energy, and somehow end up with a top-down model that has morphed by some weird mechanism from our local movements. We lose the power of people working together for their causes. We have to find a new model.
