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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM TIM

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

December 15, 2009

 

We had the honour and privilege to share beautiful moments with Tim, to make common plans and to work together with him. We could not see each other often, but when we met we felt so comfortable and well with him… That was one of the many talents of Tim.

It is a great loss for us personally and for the social movements that lose his ability to keep things together, different people, different groups and ideas, make them work together looking for common grounds but always allowing everybody to make a step forward from their positions in the right direction. Because Tim had a vision of another world possible and actively has been contributing to build it. When last year the global economic crisis violently crushed on the American society, Tim used to tell us: “There’s things happening here that I thought I could have never seen in my life!”. There was hope in his words, he wanted us to look at the opportunities to build, as he used to say, the “globalization from below”.

We will try to follow up what we learned from Tim. We will miss him.

Ciao

Bruno Ciccaglione & Alexandra Strickner

 

 

 

 

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ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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