“remaining vague on demands can make the tent bigger”
on Washington Post: Ezra Klein interviews David Graeber, one of the initial organisers of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
If you make demands, you’re saying, in a way, that you’re asking the people in power and the existing institutions to do something different. And one reason people have been hesitant to do that is they see these institutions as the problem.
Can’t help drawing comparisons to Bersih 2.0. A cause that should have been inclusive only further divided us due to 8 ill-conceived demands.
