activist strategies

Evergreen tends to run in about three year activist cycles. It’s a fairly observable phenomenon that a group of students will show up either as fresh persons or transfers, learn about issues together, start to work on common projects and then form a cadre, affinity group, collective or whatever you’d like to call it.

Those people come to their own after a while of learning about the issues, seeing how Evergreen works and developing organizing skills. But at some point, that group will phase out and take their knowledge with them. A new group will start at the beginning and there’ll be a gap of time where activism reaches a low point.