Steve, 

 

Your question prompted by the Anand Giridhara video has reached me as I am reading a much stronger exploration of the same theme, especially for nonprofit organizations. It is a book recommended to me by Seva Gandhi, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex." 

 

I find these questions particularly pertinent in the aftermath of having just written an orientation handbook about the legacy and values of ICA. On the surface, it highlights concerns that ICA has long expressed in its image of the "trans-establishement." That clarity, however, gives no one a free pass. Both the video and the book raise questions that can only be answered in a confessional examination of one's actions and commitments -- individually and institutionally. I appreciate your reminder about this.

 

Terry

 

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:53 PM, steve har via OE ‪<oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: 

 

Is your regular life on the right side of social justice or just your little "side project"

 

Anand Giridharadas: The Thriving World, The Wilting World, & You

At the Aspen Institute

https://youtu.be/IP7HajXJD3s

 

note the reference in the talk  to Ursula LaGuin's short philosophical

fiction "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was on the Institute

shared reading list at the conference.

See: tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas