Finding Your Voice With RT - East Rochester Edition
One of the many reasons I’m well pleased to spend money to support Metro Justice is their great newsletter. In the October newsletter, there was a bit about organizing that caught my eye:
Organizing, not to be confused with mobilizing, is ultimately what changes people’s minds. Whereas mobilizing is about moving people to take certain actions (voting, lobbying policy-makers, coming out to an event or calling your Congress member on an issue pre-selected by someone else), organizing is about developing the skills, confidence and practice among ordinary people to speak out in their own voice.
I’ve had a number of folks tell me that RT has been really helpful in finding and speaking out on progressive issues. I’ve found that to be true for me as well. So, we’re organizers, then? 
The article goes on to say:
What ultimately forces change is human beings seeing fellow human beings act from a place of deep conviction. That moment of recognition can occur only when people who are living with an injustice bring their experience to the public square.
RT is helping me to express and act from that “place of deep conviction”. Here’s hoping it’s helping you.
And, based on the huge number of comments we’ve gotten about East Rochester corruption these last couple weeks, I’d say RT is helping folks who have lived with long-standing corruption to the public square as well.
Glad to be here for all of you. You are being heard.
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