{"id":8190,"date":"2015-05-16T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2015-05-16T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T13:27:11","slug":"top-10-activist-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8190","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Activist Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/top-10-activist-errors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Activist Errors<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The number one error, engaged in by the majority of people, is failing to be an activist. The world\u2019s going to hell, countless situations can be easily improved, lives can be saved, and most people just sit there and do nothing. Others actively work to make matters worse. So, if you\u2019re working for peace and justice, you\u2019re among the tiny minority that\u2019s pretty much got the big stuff right. If constructive criticism drives you into despair, please stop reading this article right now and just continue what you\u2019re doing with your life. You have my gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re open to hearing some suggestions, for whatever they may be worth (and yes, of course, this list of errors will exclude those that I am myself guilty and unaware of), read on:<\/p>\n<p>1. ELECTIONISM. We need elections but do not now have them in the United States, not at the federal level. Working for\u00a0<a title=\"election reforms\" href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/node\/4729\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/node\/4729\">election reforms<\/a>\u00a0is one of the most important things anyone can do. But taking time off from activism to focus on elections is the biggest waste of resources we engage in. Election reform will come through creative nonviolent activism, education, organizing, media, disruption, resistance, and protest. It won\u2019t come through elections. Registering voters is not activism. Creating automatic registration, as just done in Oregon, is activism. Please stifle your compulsion to ask me who I\u2019m voting for. You don\u2019t ask me if I want to win the lottery. (I do, but I will not buy a ticket or devote my life to staring at one.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 10 Activist Errors The number one error, engaged in by the majority of people, is failing to be an activist. The world\u2019s going to hell, countless situations can be easily improved, lives can be saved, and most people just sit there and do nothing. Others actively work to make matters worse. So, if you\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,5466,5467,5468,1383,3391],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activism","tag-activist","tag-constructive-criticism","tag-criticism","tag-justice","tag-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}