On '(W)REC(KING) DEMOCRACY' & the way forward
Dear Biola, I read yours a couple of times for several reasons. Since our first encounter at Fajuyi hall in June 1990, you have in your own way been maintained a presence in the struggle for change and do still, as far as I know, subscribe to socialist struggle and the revolutionary pathway as the road to social transformation. Your position for moving beyond internet activism (which is not unimportant, but left as the sole or major plank of intervention. ...can not but be sterile), is one I wholly subscribe to. But what disturbs my mind is always trying to start from zero, making our various struggles merely episodic rather than stringing them as beads in a rosary...tying them together and thus building not only continuity but the ethos and praxis of movement-building. Had we all on this serve not agreed to moving beyond internet activism by summoning and resolving on building a movement for social change at Rockview hotel on March 21? What happened to all that: the passion, the think...