stories of how your consciousness was raised please!
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It depends on what you mean by "lefty" and "consciousness." As I resolutely insisted at a dinner Ravi organized over Christmas 2008, there is no "story" behind my politics, other than an ongoing cognitive process through which I continually seek to refine my understanding of the world.
If the question is how I became actively involved, though, the answer is probably Seattle and the protest scene (and I use the word very deliberately) that subsequently arose around labor, ecology, and similar issues among the camous set. I was basically in the right place at the right time.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."