Catching up with folks at Columbia, it was exciting to hear that Leymah Gbowee spoke at the business school's Social Enterprise Conference the same day she was notified she won the Nobel Peace Prize, a few weeks back.
I had to smile at her advice to Occupy Wall Street, written about in Al Arabiya News:
“When I wake up in the morning I have goals: women’s rights, peace, security” the 39-year-old social worker told an audience of students at Columbia University who had asked for her advice on activism.
“If you are doing a protest you need to have an agenda. If you wake up in the morning and poke a guitar, take a drum downtown and someone is singing and another one is dancing and movie stars are coming and saying do this, do that... and everyone is confused, you’ll be there for a long time.”
“If you are doing a protest you need to have an agenda. If you wake up in the morning and poke a guitar, take a drum downtown and someone is singing and another one is dancing and movie stars are coming and saying do this, do that... and everyone is confused, you’ll be there for a long time.”
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