I will be researching and writing about the cons of slackism. Essentially this is the idea that when one shares or participates in some form of awareness, they are scrapping the surface of "taking action" and fueling the campaign's agenda to raise more money to raise more awareness. Many people who have a high sense of calling to a certain campaign get swindled into helping 'raise awareness' and shy out of actually doing the heavy lifting. It is great that people want to put a sticker on the Mac's to help End It, but is it really helping?
I want to focus on the Kony campaign, the trendy End It Movement, Breast Cancer, and the ways the awareness has or could have hurt their campaign. Also I want to provide practical ways to be hands on with the campaign of choice without having to move to Africa. I want to give practical ways to think beyond reposting and liking and sticking and move on to things that are more powerful than awareness; taking action.
This blog posts will serve as an archive to manage the many potential websites I will utilize.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/23/18-awareness/
http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/i-am-anti-awareness-and-you-should-be-too/
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/10/pink-politics.html
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/178926.pdf
http://www.nywici.org/features/blogs/aloud/invisible-children
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/opinion/sutter-slavery-end-it-movement/http://www.nywici.org/features/blogs/aloud/invisible-children
