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   Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 13:23:31 JST Eira Tansey

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   Leftists in the United States have completely conflated institutional abandonment with a liberatory politics and I think this has been an absolutely fatal mistake. The right wing never gave up on institution building, and our failure to make the same commitments has put us arguably a generation and more behind fighting back against the right wing. We’ll miss these institutions when they’re gone.

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 13:23:32 JST Eira Tansey

     I am saying this with my whole heart as a person who has made a significant commitment to professional association work (being on the Society of American Archivists council) but I am existentially concerned for the future of our professional associations as people want the benefits of strong leadership but shy away from getting in the trenches to do exactly the work we need. This gets at a lot of what I’ve been observing https://open.substack.com/pub/grouphug/p/we-dont-love-organizations-back?r=sx43&utm_medium=ios

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.