Episode 18: Ben Fink- A Communist Jew from the Northeast CH. 2

<h2><strong>CSCW EP 18: Ben Fink – A Communist Jew from the Northeast – Chapter 2</strong></h2><h2><u>Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes</u></h2><p><strong>As a self described "communist Jew from the Northeast, what kind of hostility did you encounter in coal country?</strong></p><blockquote><em>Honestly, the most hostility I got was from some of the liberals who are like, this is our way of doing things and we have this way of doing activism, and this way of doing community development, and this way of, who we relate to and who we don't relate to and blah, blah, blah.</em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><p><strong><em>How can traditional hymn singing help build trust?</em></strong></p><blockquote><em>And, you know what I have been told that a lot of ice was broken at some of these events. When I got up in front of the room, I didn't need a mic cause I'm loud, and I was able to line out, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, or What Wonderous Love is This, ... and that became my identity to a lot of people. I was the shape note guy. I was the guy who could come in and lead a sing and, line out of him. And it just, it broke down some walls.</em></blockquote><p><strong>What is <em>Performing Our Future</em>?</strong></p><blockquote><em>Yeah. So, Performing Our Future began as a community-based research project to figure out how can people tell their stories, communities that have long resisted, systematic, organized exploitation, how those communities can collectively tell their own stories, connected to building their own power connected, to creating their own and do so in coalition with each other, both locally, as well as nationally.</em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><p>"<strong>What is the difference between cooking and catering?"</strong></p><blockquote>As Gwen said, we never done cater and we just done cooking. What's the difference between catering and cooking? The difference is what our economist friend Fluney Hutchinson calls, bounded imagination. Cooking is something you do for yourself and