A friend of mine works with young people who are first- or second-generation migrants to New Zealand.  Her job is to equip them with the skills they'll need to run campaigns, advocate for their communities, and improve the lives of the people around them.  They're 'therapists' of a sort. She has a simple way of knowing whether someone is doing the right thing or not.  She asks "Are you kicking up, or kicking down?" By 'kicking up', she means agitating against those people with power, the ones in positions in authority. All too often people find it easier to kick down: taking aim at the people who are easy targets, because they're vulnerable, less powerful, less fortunate.  It's the … [Read more...] about Kicking up, not kicking down