I never did personally, can't speak for anyone else. we were working on making legislators (who had been bought off the corporations polluting these communities) give a shit about the ways their constituents were being affected by pollution the whole time I worked there
Oh I did something similar in London but it wasn't canvassing, we were monitoring air pollution levels and doing it outside every single address, bit by bit. Mapped out air pollution down to a house by house level and proved the link between traffic pollution and health. It contributed to a lot of the traffic calming measures and fees that now affect london traffic.
All the work we did shouldn't have been necessary, the link was obvious, but without making things impossible to deny you can never do anything that might hurt capital.
We probably saved actual lives with that one so I'm pretty proud of contributing.
yeah, it was one of my favorite jobs because of that feeling of contribution. there were a couple houses where I cleaned the gutters of people who really thought we were tree-hugger wackos but hey free gutter cleaning, except I could tell the talk about their neighbors being sick and wanting to find evidence to hold that big company accountable actually gave them some pause. 🤷 cleaning someone's gutters is a small price to pay to make them rethink their situation and reconsider their best interests, if only for a moment.
The thing I do with people as often as possible is remind them to ask themselves "how will this benefit my life?"
Most people are not acting with thought about themselves in mind, they are simply acting on the will of the information sphere surrounding them. Pushing them to do this can in fact reshape their political decisions.
I try to remind people that they should be doing this as often as possible, about everything. It helps.
Did you ever canvass for anything you fundamentally disagreed with? Or did anyone else at the company?
I never did personally, can't speak for anyone else. we were working on making legislators (who had been bought off the corporations polluting these communities) give a shit about the ways their constituents were being affected by pollution the whole time I worked there
Oh I did something similar in London but it wasn't canvassing, we were monitoring air pollution levels and doing it outside every single address, bit by bit. Mapped out air pollution down to a house by house level and proved the link between traffic pollution and health. It contributed to a lot of the traffic calming measures and fees that now affect london traffic.
All the work we did shouldn't have been necessary, the link was obvious, but without making things impossible to deny you can never do anything that might hurt capital.
We probably saved actual lives with that one so I'm pretty proud of contributing.
yeah, it was one of my favorite jobs because of that feeling of contribution. there were a couple houses where I cleaned the gutters of people who really thought we were tree-hugger wackos but hey free gutter cleaning, except I could tell the talk about their neighbors being sick and wanting to find evidence to hold that big company accountable actually gave them some pause. 🤷 cleaning someone's gutters is a small price to pay to make them rethink their situation and reconsider their best interests, if only for a moment.
The thing I do with people as often as possible is remind them to ask themselves "how will this benefit my life?"
Most people are not acting with thought about themselves in mind, they are simply acting on the will of the information sphere surrounding them. Pushing them to do this can in fact reshape their political decisions.
I try to remind people that they should be doing this as often as possible, about everything. It helps.
I really like that strategy ❤️