Where It’s At

On the west coast last month, I had a chance to visit the amazing folks of the Desgin Action Colletive in Oakland. Talking process and vision, something Innosanto Nagara said really stuck with me. It was something like:

“The challenge for progressives is not a lack of ideas. The models exist. The arguments exist.

But when you ask someone on the street if they want universal health care tomorrow, they say ‘Oh, that’s communism.’

The problem is a failure to communicate. And visual communications is a powerful tool that we need to learn to use better.

I strongly believe that on-the-ground organizing is where it’s at. And the communications work we do is to augment that.”

Now there’s a concise manifesto.