Hi there, found this page through someone clicking through to my activist guide webpage. Thanks for the mention and the review. :)
Really intrigued by your comments on accessibility, what does accessibility issues mean? Bare in mind I've created that guide for free, so perhaps you're expecting a level of professionalism normally associated with guides produced by large teams of people being paid to do so? I only intended it to be a guide to be read online by people already familiar with using the Internet. I am aiming to create some hard copies for a local cafe that supports grassroots projects, but that's as far as I can spread it really. I kept it free to make it as accessible as possible. Do you have any other suggestions? It's really hard to spread the word.
Yes the guide is limited in scope but it isn't a guide to anything other than formal activism, so I think those limitations you cite are unfair although I concede I may not have been clear in stating those goals in the introduction. I agree with points about helping old people in your family rather than going to an old folk's home - I mean that's sort of stating the obvious for me. Perhaps it's not so obvious to young people and I needed to state it explicitly? Not sure.
Having said all that I don't want to come across as defensive - the guide is not perfect by any means and I am aware of that - I love hearing what people have to say about it though and criticisms are invaluable to me so I can improve my guide, but I will still felt like defending some of those comments as I felt they missed my point - the whole guide was only aiming to cover formal activism, nothing else. If that needs to be made clearer then that's something I will take on board.
Is formal activism limited? Yes, definitely. You need multiple methods of problem solving to change the world. I think there is a book out there that tries to cover both formal activism and more grassroots community work, it's several hundred pages long and about £30 to buy. Yikes! I'm definitely not trying to compete with that! :D
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Really intrigued by your comments on accessibility, what does accessibility issues mean? Bare in mind I've created that guide for free, so perhaps you're expecting a level of professionalism normally associated with guides produced by large teams of people being paid to do so? I only intended it to be a guide to be read online by people already familiar with using the Internet. I am aiming to create some hard copies for a local cafe that supports grassroots projects, but that's as far as I can spread it really. I kept it free to make it as accessible as possible. Do you have any other suggestions? It's really hard to spread the word.
Yes the guide is limited in scope but it isn't a guide to anything other than formal activism, so I think those limitations you cite are unfair although I concede I may not have been clear in stating those goals in the introduction. I agree with points about helping old people in your family rather than going to an old folk's home - I mean that's sort of stating the obvious for me. Perhaps it's not so obvious to young people and I needed to state it explicitly? Not sure.
Having said all that I don't want to come across as defensive - the guide is not perfect by any means and I am aware of that - I love hearing what people have to say about it though and criticisms are invaluable to me so I can improve my guide, but I will still felt like defending some of those comments as I felt they missed my point - the whole guide was only aiming to cover formal activism, nothing else. If that needs to be made clearer then that's something I will take on board.
Is formal activism limited? Yes, definitely. You need multiple methods of problem solving to change the world. I think there is a book out there that tries to cover both formal activism and more grassroots community work, it's several hundred pages long and about £30 to buy. Yikes! I'm definitely not trying to compete with that! :D
Anyway thanks again for the mention. :)
-Shreen