Here's what I think. I think words are important. I think they form the basis for relationships, for history for every political movement. I think words create the structure of our worlds. Of our individual contexts. I started this blog as a way to explore words. How we string them together and how we use them to effect change in our own neighborhoods.
While the blog began as a part of my grad school project to study the effectiveness of grassroots organizing within the 6th Suffolk General Court District, I've realized that community building involves not just the people who comprise the neighborhoods in which we live in and work, but the infrastructure of the community itself.
As William H.Whyte wrote in The Social Life of Small Urban Space, "What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.
As a note, the Sixth Suffolk consists of precincts 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of ward 14, precincts 7, 8, 10 and 11 of ward 17, and precincts 7, 8 and 15 of ward 18, and precincts 11, 12 and 13 of ward 19, of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk.
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