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Women protest militarization after Acteal massacre.<br />

Photo: Mariana Mora<br />

Decolonizing The Revolutionary Imagination: Values<br />

Crisis, the Politics of Reality, and Why There’s Going to<br />

Be a Common-Sense Revolution in This Generation<br />

By Patrick Reinsborough<br />

Patrick Reinsborough is a writer, grassroots organizer, and popular<br />

educator who has worked on a wide range of issues including forest<br />

protection, nuclear power, police brutality, urban sprawl, peace in<br />

northern Ireland, indigenous rights, and numerous local and global<br />

environmental justice struggles. He is the cofounder of the smartMeme<br />

Strategy and Training Project and the Wake Up America campaign.<br />

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If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not<br />

asked a big enough question. — I.F. Stone<br />

Introduction: Post-Issue Activism<br />

Our planet is heading into an unprecedented global crisis. The blatancy of<br />

the corporate power grab and the accelerating ecological meltdown is<br />

evidence that we do not live in an era where we can afford the luxury of<br />

fighting merely the symptoms of the problem. As is often noted, crisis<br />

<strong>photo</strong> <strong>top</strong>: Jason Justice<br />

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POST-ISSUE ACTIVISM

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