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."