Part Two of Interview with Activist David Swanson

Our readers are undoubtedly curious about how you came to be an activist in the first place, David.

I'm not sure exactly how I became an activist.  I've never been any good at doing work that didn't inspire me.  I worked for newspapers where I couldn't be honest.  By getting into full-time activism I found a way to write exactly what I mean and to drop the pretense of describing the world from outside of it without any point of view other than the corporate one.

You've been immersed in activism for quite a while, continually coming at it from various angles.  Yet, you never seem bitter or about to burn out altogether.  How do you keep going?

The time to work hardest is when it's most needed, not when it's least needed. As a graffito south of the border says,”Let's save our pessimism for better times.”  

I like that last one!  Anything you’d like to add?

Thanks for this and for everything you and OpEdNews are doing.  We won't get anywhere without both online activism and in-the-street activism, and OpEdNews has always used the former to generate the latter.

Thank you for your kind words.  We appreciate your constant efforts to make our leaders live up to their constitutional obligations.  Good luck with your new book, David. I look forward to reading it.

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The first part of my interview with David

 

David's new book: Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, by Seven Stories Press.  Pre-order it at http://tinyurl.com/daybreakbook.)

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