This is a post from Cherry Red’s page on Facebook, which I am reposting to make sure it is available outside of the Zuckerrealm. It address two of my interests: (a) sustainable activism and (b) making sure your activism isn’t useless. A lot of it is about learning from the mistakes of others. It’s all…
Month: June 2015
Should the Marikana massacre have killed the positive thinking industry?
In August 2012 South African police shot dead 34 mine workers at Marikana in a massacre that horrified the world. As the post-mortems rolled in there was plenty of blame to go around for the mining company Lonmin, union leaders, and politicians. No blame however was attributed to the positive thinking industry. That is not…