Activists ponder, discuss and thrash out options; reach out and keep reaching out; plan, worry, write, argue, cry, pace the floor, walk the streets, tramp the mountains and jungles, lose sleep, cajole, encourage, comfort, celebrate, despair, pick themselves back up; come early, stay late, and keep on keepin’ on, to ensure that actions and movements happen and that people know about them and that they get thought about and evaluated.
Activists fight to have noteworthy activists recognized, remembered, defended, celebrated and mourned.
Activists cook, get others to cook, rope in still others to cut the veggies and stir the oversized pots; activists plan, make phone calls; pick up chairs and sound systems, keep track of them and make sure the bills are paid.
Activists take notes and worry and speak and write articles and letters and get comrades to sign on. They bring folks together to talk, think and fight.
Activists plan, strategize, argue, find common ground, disagree, make coalitions, organizations, brigades, committees, flash mobs, demonstrations, street theater, strikes, music, festivals, conferences, anthologies, journals, documentaries, encampments, tree-sits, banner-drops, meetings, petitions, campaigns, uprisings, mass movements, liberation struggles…and more.