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Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.

Seth Godin, internationally known thinker, author and strategist posed a question: what’s the difference between a protest and a project? [Seth's Blog]

Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time where there’s enough opportunity and social pressure that they participate.

A protest sends a message.

But almost every time, the very things that made a protest appealing mean that it fails to change much. That’s because protests are momentary, temporary and urgent. The status quo is good at surviving protests. That’s why it’s still the status quo.

But a PROJECT begins with a protest that ends with, “We’ll be back tomorrow, and we’re bringing our friends!”

A PROJECT is impatiently persistent. It plays a longer game, one that can outlast the status quo.

A PROJECT identifies the system and brings a systematic approach to changing that system.

PROJECTS can seem boring when seen with a stopwatch, but they’re powerful when measured with a calendar.

Think about it: Nationwide we’ve marched at Hands Off in April, No Kings in June, Good Trouble in July, and in a few days Workers Over Billionaires on Labor Day. Other marches continue all over our country. We the People have become a Protest PROJECT!

Story Prompt: What happens each time you show up to a protest, share your voice, and come back for more doing your part to upset the status quo? Write that story! And tell it out loud!

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