I didn't get chance to say my little anecdote on social movements (I really
liked the application of social movement theory in NHS modernisation by the
way) yesterday so...
When the Student National Co-ordinatory Committee (SNCC, or pronounced
'snicc') in the early 1960s attempted to mobilize black people in the
American southern states as part of voter registration drives they faced
considerable white resistance. Asked how SNCC organised to deal with this
complex context one activist explained: "We have no plan, we have no
program, we ask the people what to do." This quote from a history of that
time came to mind when I chanced to meet Julian Bond, a key civil rights
activist in 1998, and so I asked him what his views were of it as an
explanation. He replied: "That's just because we really didn't have a plan."
Regards
Stuart G. Hall
www.m-power.org.uk (personal site)
www.hda-online.org.uk (corporate site)
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