And our effort to get these needs addressed even through organizing often end up wrangling with one small part of a large bureaucracy, or one provision of a policy. Our victories are significant, but ultimately they impact a small percentage of the folks being affected, and they don t necessarily lead to a far-reaching solution. Consciousness our understanding of how society works, including our sense of history. Vision the big picture we have of the world that we want for ourselves, families and communities. Strategy the plan we have for transforming the world we live in.
Political education can provide the basis for analyzing policy issues and economic trends.
For this reason popular education techniques are particularly powerful when organizing low-income communities. Popular education bases the learning on our lived experience. Understanding the political, economic and social conditions we are operating in is critical to developing effective strategies and appropriate tactics. In developing both our long-term vision as well as our short term demands, it is important to free our minds. A critical element of any political education process is learning our history past movements, campaigns and organizations.