Mobilizing for Change. Arrested Justice by Beth E. Richie (Pg 77). When social change movements depend on third parties for financial support, the potential for changing social arrangements is diluted, resulting in factions, co-optation, and backlash. Furthermore, work that does not change ideological positions and unequal institutional relationships will not lead to structural change. In the end, social movements that do not remain outside of established political mainstream organizations, that do not seek to change society but rather seek assistance from the state in creating a more sympathetic moral version of the current society, become static. This analysis is key to explaining how the desire for mainstream credibility on the part of the anti-violence movements leadership came at the expense of radical social change; a significant part of the movement collapsed on itself and fell into the trap of attempting to become a legitimate player in the fundamentally flawed system of white patriarchal power. It also explains how attention to race and class got lost to a more simplistic set of arguments about gender inequality. This is why it takes radical actions from the grassroots to free Marissa and all victims of violence who get lost systems that leave them out. Get involved.
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