Alan Johnson: Summing up: Tactics for activists
(Powerpoint presentation here)
- Translation service - progressive popularism ie "face" of CPAG: singing one song
- Generative sites need to be both physical and virtual.
- Milestones: measure and publicise to drive change
- Need to build alliances
- young and old
- CPAG branches
- Message
- Rethinking our language: rights vs needs
- Shock tactics, secure alliance
- One song: Tamariki = koha
- Alternative media - less mainstream
- Latch on to other issues eg climate justice
- Responsibility
- Collective responsibility for children rather than blaming parents
- Role of p/maternalism
- State‟s responsibility v community self-determination
- Ideas of who we are
- What defines a good life/idea of who we are?
- Being materially poor doesn‟t mean poverty
- Whanau ora
- Advocacy map/market eg ECC v CPAG & NGOs v Govt funded
- Building
- Identify local issue and project as organising points
- Celebrate
- Yeats: "Those who love the world serve it in action."
- Minto: "We are all optimists - we believe things can be different and are prepared to work for change."