Although all those I interviewed in my book, The Battle in Seattle , had heartfelt passion about their activism, it is their extraordinary mindfulness that gets them up every morning to strategize, organize, and attend to the dastardly details that eventually make things happen. They're too savvy to the times, too disillusioned by the cynical, superficial, and corporate-induced media to do anything but bring their minds fully into battle. The heart can point the way, but it doesn't get you there. They also reflect a global movement that is of, by, and for outsiders. That's the point.
Outsiders are in.
It's got a long and illustrious history. It's no accident that such activists as Carolyn Canafax, who started out fighting McCarthyism, ended up in the streets during WTO week in Seattle. They've been fighting the consuming policies of capitalistic greed for decades. That's the hard path and the only path. And it's a path reaching out around the world, far beyond the reach of punditry and politics.