accessibility

I was discussing the Occupy Movement and Pro-Palestine Encampments with some folks and someone asked why these movements failed to become "mainstream" as opposed to spaces for primarily already radicalized and marginalized populations. Putting aside that I believe this perspective is too simple, as I saw non-radicalized folks in the spaces and why would we make a separation between "marginalized" and "mainstream"? What does "marginalized" mean?, I wanted to examine the base assumption that "more accessibility" is somehow better or makes our movements more effective.

From Anarchist Studies

Dai O’Brien and Steve Emery are two deaf men with a longstanding interest in anarchist politics. They are both involved in deaf community activism and have taught history, politics, and theories about deaf communities and deaf people in society. Dai and Steve reflect on their political journeys to reach this point of engagement with anarchist thought, and on the barriers and challenges that engaging with anarchist thought and action have posed.