Today, democracy teeters as our capacity for collective action seems to have withered away.
Structural change is rooted in people, human beings, and the power we can create with each other when we find values we share, and our capacity to turn those values into sources of power.
Power does not exist out there, in some bank or something.
the general was called stratigos, and then the soldiers were called tacticas.
Structure is the commitments we make to one another about how we’re going to work together.
The benefit of rock bottom is that it delegitimizes what’s gone before.
Organizing is about enabling people to speak for themselves. It’s not a charity project. It’s a justice project.
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/marshall-ganz-interview-building-power#