Help! Im making a creative decision that I need some crowd-sourced climate movement accountability for. Im realizing I have no where to to turn, and Ive really been struggling with this little decision...so were gonna try out facebook. Heres the deal: Im making a new flow chart about the Peoples Climate March! I collected pictures of like....many many of the groups who organized for the march while they were marching. I put them in the order of the march. I labelled them. Now, Ive been struggling to find a way to define each group succinctly, before I go on to mapping out the different ways they fit in to the story of todays climate movement. Today I had this thought: WHAT IF I JUST DIDNT DEFINE ANYONE? Just do away with the 6-10 word over- essentialized synopsis of hundreds of grassroots groups mission statements? Im only gonna get it wrong. Its only going to clutter the diagram. If people really want to know, they can google the name. So, you reading this: imagine youre part of a community group/union/network/club/etc. that was super all-in for PCM, and someone gives you this drawing about the march, or maybe you buy a copy in a fundraiser for climate movement cultural work in nyc....and you find your group, and theres no description of what your organization does. Even if your title is poetic/vague/an acronym. Do you feel offended? confused? I think youre gonna be ok, right? Please affirm so I can throw out hundreds of tiny post-it notes and abort ship on this impossibly tedious and probably unnecessary task...
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:54:03 +0000