‘Understand that you pick your issues, in the dead-serious way people mean when they say “pick your battles” and “I don’t want to die on that hill.” You pick an issue because it allows you to make some progress, for both you and the person you want to pick a bone with. If it only works for you, it won’t…
Month: November 2016
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: The Guerilla Update
‘Neo-liberal governments have shut down action much more than they have shut down research and policy, and that’s one of the reasons why peaceful guerilla methods need to be explored.’ —Wayne Roberts This week’s dispatch from the field comes from Ottawa, where I spoke at a conference celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion — a brief, bold, feisty…