[murmur] The dark future...

-NYC subway

The first condition is to begin with an honest and sober assessment of the resources, human and material, available to those who wish to effect a radical change in the world that will be of benefit to the mass of the poor. Such an assessment will, inevitably, come to the conclusion that the resources available are few and poor. There are no magic sources through which an attempt to empower the wretched of the earth will suddenly be endowed with the material and technical riches of the dominant mass media, either state of private. It is essential to be absolutely clear about this poverty of resources. It is not encouraging or hopeful to recognise the limitations within which one is forced to operate, nor is such a situation desirable. It is , however, unavoidable. There are sources from which a movement might gain resources, but most of them are extremely problematic.(Sparks, 2007: 219)