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Leopolds Ghost

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15. Real busy this week

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 09:50 AM

Mar 2012

Project I'm involved in marginally related... lot of heat on all things activism related right now... we have to be real careful until we get past the funding hump. When you start trying to get funding for stuff, that's when pro-establishment folks in the community start pulling the strings. And even in a liberal community (actually, especially in an affluent community, because they aren't the ones hurting) they tend to resent activists for some reason... usually they say "I used to be like you, that's why I'm willing to speak to you"... aargh

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