Building Transformation from Below: Activism, Analysis, and Effective Solidarity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mary Jo Nadeau was the theorist and practitioner of a mode of transformative politics oriented around mobilizing in ways that build power from below. She contributed to building a Palestine Solidarity movement in the Canadian state around the call from Palestinian civil society organizations for a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions of Israeli institutions. Her activist practice modelled a politics of solidarity from below that was strategic, learning-oriented, creative and deeply transformative. Solidarity from below requires a delicate balance between recognizing the leadership of those who are struggling for their own freedom and taking responsibility from one’s own position to work together to undo systems of oppression. This mode of activism is built on an open-ended commitment to learning from others, recognizing that they bring experiences and organizing repertoires that are fundamental to effective transformation. As people mobilize, they develop capacities for collectivity powered by strategic victories, an increasing knowledge base, and the shared experience of playful creativity. This deliberate development of capacities from below is a fundamental feature of the project of social transformation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".