Hopesick: Naomi Klein’s lexicon of disappointment

April 17, 2009 in Editor's Blog | No comments

“Hope was a fine slogan when rooting for a long-shot presidential candidate. But as a posture toward the president of the most powerful nation on earth, it is dangerously deferential. The task as we move forward is not to abandon hope but to find more appropriate homes for it — in the factories, neighbourhoods and schools where tactics like sit-ins, squats and occupations are seeing a resurgence.”

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