I’d like to see a small number of people connecting EA to each of these… Social movements (eg Fair Trade, Black Lives Matter, drug reform/prison reform movements)
If you still hold this view, I’d be interested in why you’d like to see people “connecting EA to each of these.” What are the benefits you expect? Is it for recruitment (i.e. getting them to switch causes), shared strategic knowledge, or something else? (If you don’t still hold this view, I’d be interested in why not?)
I ask because I’m just finishing up a social movement case study on the Fair Trade movement; hence why I stumbled across this post from a year and a half ago.
I do! I think “shared strategic knowledge” is probably the best was of phrasing it, so thank you for that.
It’s also good to have a wide network of people with similar goals who you can collaborate with, and not all of the people I’d like to collaborate with are still “Effective Altruists”. It’s nice to have someone who’s a trusted member of both EA and another relevant movement, who can provide introductions and advice.
If you still hold this view, I’d be interested in why you’d like to see people “connecting EA to each of these.” What are the benefits you expect? Is it for recruitment (i.e. getting them to switch causes), shared strategic knowledge, or something else? (If you don’t still hold this view, I’d be interested in why not?)
I ask because I’m just finishing up a social movement case study on the Fair Trade movement; hence why I stumbled across this post from a year and a half ago.
I do! I think “shared strategic knowledge” is probably the best was of phrasing it, so thank you for that.
It’s also good to have a wide network of people with similar goals who you can collaborate with, and not all of the people I’d like to collaborate with are still “Effective Altruists”. It’s nice to have someone who’s a trusted member of both EA and another relevant movement, who can provide introductions and advice.