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2/08/2004

 

Back Home to Cleveland

Chris Alvarado posts about John Ettorre's article in the Free Times and links to Anton Zuiker's post about coming back home to Cleveland:
Just over a week ago, I published my personal call to arms that included this statement:
And despite what many say or believe, this is a place where anybody can do wonderful and brilliant things. For the young especially, Cleveland is a place where you have the opportunity to build something truly spectacular, and where you can do Good Work.
At the time, I should have referenced John Ettore's excellent treatise in the Free Times where he says:
...dozens of these bright and highly motivated mavericks won't be nearly enough to replace the old political/business leadership vacuum we have.

Thankfully, they won't have to. They're being joined by a rising cohort of hundreds of what might be called social entrepreneurs. ...their stock in trade is social (and sometimes financial) capital, accumulated simply through the power of their ideas, achievements and social networks. And in their rich appreciation for the town's real culture, history and appealing stew of ethnic complexity, these activists are building a new generation of leadership richer than anything that went before largely because they are increasingly being connected through small collaborations that can often lead to large changes.
This is what we all can do; we all have the power to make small changes that, together, move mountains. John's own manifesto has not fallen on deaf ears. A bright fella named Anton Zuiker read John's words, and felt moved enough to consider coming home, and I think that there are more folks like Anton who are ready to make changes not only in their own lives, but in a place that itself is ready to be changed.

Come back home.
Make sure you follow the links and read John's comments to Anton. I concur.




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