After our panel at the Socialism conference, I spoke for a bit longer with Kelly Hayes and Eman Abdelhadi about grief, organizing, and the struggles we’re in right now. Kelly ran our conversation in her newsletter (which you should subscribe to!) and then it was reprinted in Truthout.
This is why, I think, we do this work, at the end of the day: we are the kinds of people who can’t simply go through the world unhurt by all that is going on around us even if we, at a given time, have managed to insulate ourselves from being materially damaged by it. We see what is happening in the world, from Gaza to our own neighborhoods, and it hurts. We might have the best political analysis in the world, but we got there because we cared about the world around us.