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3 - Something's gotta start: class consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Kevin McDonald
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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rob: We'll get stuck into him!

serge: A [town] councillor! That's what it is. We're not asking them to tell us, we're gonna tell them!

carson: That's it, it's our area!

serge: We can tell them: Do something about the area!

carson: That's it!

rob: I reckon it would be good to sit here and get him to listen to us …

paul: Get the mayor! He's a councillor, isn't he?

rob: … how our problems are. That might be able to sort 'em out, kind of thing, you know what I mean? Get a solution to some of our problems.

serge: The rubbish everywhere. They're not helping to clean it up. So maybe we can tell them … to employ us, for a day, just to … you know what I mean?

carson: You know, yeah! They send a truck out once a month, employ a whole heap of kids, you know, give 'em a stick with a pin on the end.

paul: What, you're just gonna complain about rubbish? What else are you gonna com [too excited to finish his word] … There's not that much wrong with the place! It's just …

serge: Not much wrong with the joint, man!

paul: Well, what? Come on! Come on! What?

nick: Well, what's there to do here?

serge: That's right! What is there to do? You gotta start somewhere, don't you? Something's gotta start.

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Struggles for Subjectivity
Identity, Action and Youth Experience
, pp. 48 - 65
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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