Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

Joel at AnimalBlawg recently wrote a post calling for a strong, nonhierarchal veg movement in DC. This has sparked a lot of thinking for me about the need to have conversations about strategy, tactics, and other aspects of effective change, so I’ll be putting together a series of posts to help spark those conversations.

Today, I want to talk a bit about strategic planning. Too often, I see groups spending a lot of time organizing events, raising money, and so forth without taking the time to really think about what affect all the time and energy spent will actually accomplish. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the “fake it ’til you make it” mantra and am happy to see people organizing themselves in any way that shows they are tired of complacency, but that doesn’t mean we can’t move past that stage with some healthy dialog. After all, if we are going to be in this for the long haul, then we can’t keep setting ourselves up for constant action with no tangible results.