One key element of building an effective liberation struggle is the ability of organizers to spread and reproduce their own cognitive liberation in the people they are trying to organize. A key to this spread is the organizer's "Story of Self." Learning to tell an effective story of self - the telling of that moment or choice point in a person's life which pushed them to become an organizer - is a challenging exercise.
I just finished participating in an online practice session in which participants worked on crafting and honing their "Stories of Self." I heard some beautiful and concise examples of people illustrating their own activizing moments, their own choice points. As for myself, I think I illustrated my own choice point well enough, but I took too long to do it. (We are supposed to take only two minutes!) My story needs some more work...
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