{"id":2012,"date":"2011-05-18T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/organizing-and-activism-seth-gunning.html"},"modified":"2011-05-18T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T21:22:07","slug":"organizing-and-activism-seth-gunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/organizing-and-activism-seth-gunning.html","title":{"rendered":"Organizing and activism &mdash;Seth Gunning"},"content":{"rendered":"This comment from Seth Gunning came in today. -jsq\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=66100636&#038;authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&#038;authToken=sqU4&#038;trk=hb_upphoto\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/media03.linkedin.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrink_80_80\/p\/2\/000\/049\/09a\/12196b0.jpg\"><\/a>\nSpeaking About organizing &#038; activism- We can make them dichotomous, in order to speak about them more distinctly; but my intent (in the comment turned blog-post) was not to insinuate that the two are anti-thetical or opposing to one another in many ways at all.\n<p>\nThat is not to say, though, that the work of one doesn&#8217;t clearly look much different from the work of the other.\n<p>\nI hesitate to use metaphor, because while they might be good heuristic learning tools, they too often are or become justificatory and prevent us from communicating clearly.\n<p>\nI will refer instead to this narrative, the basis of what I was attempting to communicate about my perception between the differences in activism work (all good and well) and organizing. <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondthechoir.org\/diary\/51\/activism-vs-organizing-reflections-on-gramsci-pt2\">http:\/\/beyondthechoir.org\/diary\/51\/activism-vs-organizing-reflections-on-gramsci-pt2<\/a>\n<p>\n-Seth Gunning\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This comment from Seth Gunning came in today. -jsq Speaking About organizing &#038; activism- We can make them dichotomous, in order to speak about them more distinctly; but my intent (in the comment turned blog-post) was not to insinuate that the two are anti-thetical or opposing to one another in many ways at all. That [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40],"tags":[8736,8717,3793],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","tag-activism","tag-community","tag-organizing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}