He also called for a multi-party political system, elimination of the electoral system, reparations for African Americans in the form of free education, and increased community activism. It is critically important that those of us interested in social justice and equality vest responsibility and control in our own community. As a student-activist at University of California, Santa Barbara, she was among those who stormed the chancellor's office, but also watched divisions develop between those who were willing to be arrested and those who were not. She was not. She decided, given the hiring timeline, that the hunger strike was unrealistic.
Interpersonal contacts are part of how it all works.
I've mellowed a bit. I would never trade those great years at Santa Barbara, but I believe different methods of activism are appropriate for different times. Art and design undergraduate Ryan C. LaLonde, one-fourth Native American and gay, discussed how difficult it is to work in two different activist communities, and how hard it is to combine educating people about a cause and participating in protests. Being gay is particularly difficult, he suggested. Gays suffer oppression from their friends, family and people we thought would be our friends.