http://www.freespeechzoneblog….
that’s for the link.
From Jack’s Smirking Revenge. Great essay.
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by: Jack’s Smirking Revenge
Wed Jan 06, 2010 at 01:18:20 AM EST
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It seems my “work” has gained some attention.
A professor i’m taking a January course with told me I had to do a “food drive” or work with a charity in order to then write a paper about it…to which I responded “which one?” and gave her a list of one I helped to start as well as others i’m working with currently.
Then, I got a phone call.
Jack’s Smirking Revenge :: Mercenary Missionary
She looked into whether or not I was pulling her leg with the email I sent by asking my advisor if my “tech skills” as well as the other decade-long work I cited was true…he said it was and showed her everything I was doing now and briefed her on what I had done in the past.
So she decided to call me to ask if I “charge” for the computer/web things I do or if I do them for free. I told her I do them for free because “we don’t live in a time where making a buck is a luxury, people need help now, and we need to get boots on the ground now and fast for what’s coming”.
That did it for her.
She told me she agrees with me entirely. She then let me know the numerous positions and programs she directed or served on in the U.N. and let me know she is high up in Rotary International doing work currently with food drives here locally while she teaches. She then laid a line on me that was like the line Bruce Wayne gave to Harvey Dent in “The Dark Knight” (might not be the exact line):
“No, you don’t understand, one meeting with my friends, and you’ll never need another dime.”
At my disposal will be activists of the highest caliber, trained formally in dealing with the “professional” aspects of what I want to do (dealing with obstructive local politician douche-fucks, high-up members of the community that want to help, heads of local chapters of “big name” groups, etc.) as well as what I call “Non-Commissioned Officers” in the activist circles that have been acting without a veteran “grunt” that knows what’s needed in “the shit” to achieve the goals needed to help people. Things like:
– What politicians need to be “massaged” with words by threats of campaign contributor denial and constituent persuasion so they stay off our fucking backs and let us do what we need to do without question or obstruction
– What can actually “be done”, by this I mean what is just idealist wishful thinking and what can actually be done now to setup for what we want to ultimately achieve overall over time, basically the reality of the goals success no matter how crushing my realist perspective from experience might be
– What technology can be used to help us be more efficient in helping people, things like food pantry inventory services with inter-faith charity cooperation was the one I pitched off the top of my head, as well as social networking websites customized for each group for more effective communication
…and numerous other things that I was told I would be discussing with the kind of people who I bet have never sat down and talked with a person that has a 8-inch mohawk in their lives.
Best part is I don’t have to swear allegiance to any group. Loose association with no strings attached when I don’t want them, but there when I need them. Make all the contacts I want and do whatever I want in respect to what I think would work as long as I run it by a few people so they can know what I need/be willing to give me to help people.
Oh, and along with my activist/organizing experience I now come with the following extras:
Computer maintenance, software/hardware configuration, knowledge in open-source/freeware/shareware alternatives to expensive commercial products, systems/network administration, limited web design and web site maintenance, software/hardware consulting customized to fit any non-profit group’s or charity organization’s needs….
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