Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:49:29 -0700
From: target@batstar.net
To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [psysr-disc] Partisan Politics
Hi, Ooo:
From my point of view, there is a need for a "renetworking" so that social justice psychology can work productively with the "client/survivor" activists. This is an
organizational perspective not a political one, in the precise sense of the term. So while political advocacy ("we're the ones with the 'correct' politics") is [a] volatile and [b] possibly in conflict with the 501(c)(3), the "social responsibility" discussion is (expectably) productive.But that does require that we come to see ourselves as "productive beings" rather than as political advocates. My reference there would be to the thinking of Antonio Gramsci.
Hmmmm. I think I've had this argument before.
Andrew Phelps
Quoting Cde:
Dear Ooo
There are many many ways in which we can and do work against the POLICIES of our government. PsySR has worked more strongly to educate and and strategize against torture, mistreatment and illegal imprisonment in the past year than on any other one issue. It is only working AS AN ORGANIZATION for and against candidates and parties in the national election process that is prohibited to us by our tax-free status. ..