Cindy Milstein on Direct action

“The beauty of the direct action movement, it could be said, is that it strives to take its own ideals to heart.”

“What gets forgotten in relation to direct action mobilizations is the promise implicit in their own structure: that power not only needs to be contested; it must also be constituted anew in liberatory and egalitarian forms. This entails taking directly democratic processes seriously—not simply as a tactic to organize protests but as the very way we organize society, specifically the political realm.”