The Mechanics of Positive Action Campaigns
Why Oppress & Exploit
Profit or Privilege
The REWARDS for maintaining injustice
are greater than
the REWARDS for ending injustice;
- Those with power or privilege benefit from injustice;
- No financial (or other) rewards for ending injustice;
- Financial rewards for the rich;
- Psychological and other rewards for the privileged
(whites; men; higher social classes);
How to End Injustice
MUST COST MORE TO
MAINTAIN INJUSTICE
THAN TO END IT
Civil Disobedience and Positive Action
campaigns
make us unmanageable
thereby increasing the cost of
maintaining the system of injustice.
How to End Injustice
Campaign
Mobilizing or Organizing to win
objectives or demands
DECISION DILEMMA
Being forced to choose between 2 or more bad options
Direct Action Campaign
A campaign that heightens the
Decision Dilemma
in order to win objectives or demands
Discrimination in Public
R E W A R D S
Reduce spending on Blacks
Increase spending on Whites
White race privilege & pride
Discrimination in Private
R E W A R D S
More profits via reduced costs
White race privilege & pride
- Less business competition
- More jobs for whites
Mission: Decision Dilemma
DILEMMA
End segregation
- OR -
Go out of business
Clearcutting
REWARDS
$$$ Money
Profit
Mission: Decision Dilemma
DILEMMA
Paycheck - OR - Murder Charges
Ending Injustice
Rewards of Injustice
(profit and/or privilege)
-
Costs of Injustice
(oppression and quelling rebellion)
____________________________
Time
=
Outcome
[ if REWARDS > COST --> Maintain Injustice ]
[ If COSTS > REWARDS --> End Injustice ]
Mechanics of Positive Action
By Positive Action Center
