How do I organize people around shared values when we're politically divided?

This is the question of our time, and Rabia's example is quietly radical here. She didn't organize around ideology or doctrine. She organized around love—a love so pure and fierce that it transcended the categories people tried to put her in. That's not avoiding politics; it's going deeper. When you organize around shared material reality instead of abstract principles, division softens. People who disagree on *everything* can still agree: we need to feed people in this neighborhood. Our kids deserve clean water. Our elders shouldn't be alone. These aren't political statements—they're human statements. Start there. Find the concrete problem everyone experiences. A food desert. Housing instability. Lack of childcare. A polluted water source. When you organize people to solve an actual problem together, you create a different relationship than debate allows. You're on the same side. You're building something instead of arguing about abstractions. Rabia teaches us that genuine devotion requires seeing the whole person, not just the parts you disagree with. In organizing, that means: listen to understand what people actually need, not what you assume. Work alongside people whose politics differ from yours. The shared work itself becomes the bridge. You don't need to solve the division—you need to make it irrelevant by focusing on what you can actually build together.