Comments on: (re)thinking walking: cairo

By: sisonalidio

sisonalidio — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:51:12 +0000

Yes, I’m really beginning to see in all of these (re)thinking walking posts how if we let the body, mind and spirit wander, they go where they need to go: they return to a place of healing. This is an amazing gift of a post. Thank you.

By: Walks « Chicks Dig Me

Walks « Chicks Dig Me — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:00:55 +0000

[...] Mai’a is linked in the above post, but having just read her post and loved it, I wanted to link it again on its own as well. My body as a white woman doesn’t read the same as hers, get read the same, I mean, harassed in the same ways for the same reasons. I still relate to hating that I have to have my defenses up when I leave the house, in some way, to the extent that most of the time it’s not even conscious. [...]

By: flip flopping joy » (Re)Thinking Walking: Where’s Paradise? (jess)

flip flopping joy » (Re)Thinking Walking: Where’s Paradise? (jess) — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:44:55 +0000

[...] Mai’a wrote this wonderful walk the other day. Did you read it? [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:20:01 +0000

This is a beautiful entry.

You’re completely right. You don’t need a BA to be a community organizer. In fact, anyone with a BA would probably make for a lousy community organizer. I wonder if Jimmy Hoffa had a BA in anything. Or any of the Wobbles. Or the Panthers. Or Mother Jones. Michael Albert wrote about his days in SDS and said everything happened by people getting together in dorm rooms, living rooms, or public spaces, and just talking into the wee hours of the night. You don’t need a BA for that. As Jim Hightower says, even a dog knows the difference between being tripped over and being kicked. If everyone knew that they weren’t alone in being kicked, then there would be an effort to stop it. But to stop it, it requires organization. organization. organization.

I agree with the old adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But the anarcho-syndicalist in me would just like to post a foot note that the degree of power is equally proportional to the degree of corruption.

By: luna

luna — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:42:16 +0000

loving you

By: Aaminah Hernandez

Aaminah Hernandez — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:37:49 +0000

i am enjoying how bfp’s & jess’ walks are spinning off into a true revolution, into so many women in different places (geographically & emotionally/spiritually/physically, etc) walking & writing & photographing & sharing it with us. this is really very meaningful work.

By: fabiola

fabiola — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:34:52 +0000

beautiful. amazing thanks for sharing.

By: mama

mama — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:56:46 +0000

thank you jess…you are such an inspiration…

By: jess

jess — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:12:31 +0000

this is so wonderful. thank you for writing — and walking and living — with so much vision and so much heart.

love,

jess